Incident date: 2024-09-17
NAICS industry code: 622110

An employee was transporting a rolling bin of trash across the loading bay parking lot to a dumpster. The employee's field of view was limited to the right side of the bin when a vehicle that was backing up impacted the front-left corner of the bin. The bin fell to the right, causing the employee to fall to the ground and suffer a non-displaced spinal vertebral fracture that required hospitalization.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Roadway vehicle  motorized, unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back  unspecified
severity: moderate