Incident date: 2016-09-21
NAICS industry code: 327993

On September 21, 2016, an employee was on a vertical ladder checking the level of waste in a dumpster when a delivery truck struck and pinned the employee between the truck and the dumpster. The employee was hospitalized with a broken right leg, a collapsed lung and liver damage.

Hazard classification:
code_event: title: Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
code_source: title: Delivery truck or van
code_nature: title: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk
code_body: title: Multiple trunk locations
severity: moderate