Incident date: 2018-02-25
NAICS industry code: 336212

An employee was using a cart caddy to pull a semi-trailer into the paint booth. The employee was walking backwards and backed up against the bumper of the semi-trailer ahead of him in the paint booth. The cart caddy continued to move towards the employee and struck the employee in the lower leg fracturing the tibia and fibula.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
code_source: title: Plant and industrial vehicle-nonpowered, n.e.c
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: moderate