Incident date: 2017-07-10
NAICS industry code: 561730

At approximately 4:10 a.m., employees were mulching a median/island between a four-lane road. One of the company employees was using a gas powered, hand held, back mounted blower to blow off the curb and was struck by an oncoming car. The injured employee was hospitalized with facial, leg and rib fractures, facial lacerations and abrasions over various part of the body.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in roadway
code_source: title: Automobile
code_nature: title: Fractures
code_body: title: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
severity: moderate