Incident date: 2023-05-08
NAICS industry code: 332322

A construction employee was working in a barricaded work zone, unloading a work truck, when a pickup truck crashed through the construction fence and struck the employee. The employee was pinned to a nearby semi-trailer and sustained a right lower leg amputation, left knee fracture, internal bleeding, and damage to the kidney and pancreas.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in work zone
code_source: title: Pickup truck
code_nature: title: Amputations
code_body: title: Lower leg(s)
severity: high