Incident date: 2024-07-05
NAICS industry code: 562111

On July 5th, 2024, employees were collecting garbage in a residential neighborhood. The injured employee bent down to pick a piece of trash off the ground when the truck ran over his foot and he fell down. The truck continued moving backward and rolled over his pelvis. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to his pelvis, lower back, and ankle.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in roadway
code_source: title: Trucks with mounted machines, equipment  unspecified
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Trunk and other lower extremities
severity: moderate