Incident date: 2018-03-15
NAICS industry code: 237310

An employee was standing in a work zone next to his sweeper truck that had just been filled with water from a water truck parked adjacent to it when a vehicle driving the wrong way entered the work zone and collided with the trucks. The employee was struck by the vehicle and/or debris from the struck vehicles and suffered a broken leg, bruises, and road rash.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle propelled by another vehicle in work zone
code_source: title: Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Leg(s), unspecified
severity: moderate