Incident date: 2015-12-03
NAICS industry code: 562119

An employee was loading railcars with petroleum coke. As he was coupling up the railcars, his left foot got caught under the railcar. He called out to the locomotive operator to back the railcar in the other direction to relieve the pressure off his foot, which was crushed in the process and required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by rail vehicle-transportation incident
code_source: title: Train, locomotive, rail car, n.e.c.
code_nature: title: Crushing injuries
code_body: title: Foot (feet), unspecified
severity: moderate