Incident date: 2020-05-28
NAICS industry code: 541614

An employee was driving a checker vehicle when it collided with a truck that was backing up. The employee suffered a right superior articulating facet fracture of the C6 vertebra, a fracture of the left posterior tubercle at the C5 vertebra, a grade IV blunt cerebrovascular injury with distal reconstitution, abrasions to the left ear and left elbow, and decreased sensation in the right thumb and index finger.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Moving in opposite directions, oncoming, nonroadway
code_source: title: Automobile
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
severity: moderate