Incident date: 2016-03-26
NAICS industry code: 484121

On 03/26/2016, at 6:00 p.m., an employee exited a semi-truck and trailer and was providing backing directions to a driver who was reversing a second semi-truck and trailer. The driver did not see the stop signal and continued backing the truck into the injured employee's truck and trailer. The employee's right arm was caught between the two trailers. The employee was hospitalized with a broken right arm.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
code_source: title: Semi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Arm(s), unspecified
severity: moderate