Incident date: 2019-03-29
NAICS industry code: 517210

An employee working in a bucket of bucket truck approximately 16 feet above the ground was securing a steel support strand to a building facade when a tractor trailer hit the steel support strand. It detached from the building and struck the employee causing a broken right arm and facial lacerations.

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