Abstract: At approximately 11:15 a.m. on January 16, 1997, Employee #1, a laborer for Vollers Excavating and Construction Company, Inc., was working at a construction site in Florham Park, NJ. While acting as a backup guide on a new construction road that was being built, he walked in front of a Caterpillar track-type bulldozer that had been stationary. The operator did not see him and abruptly moved the dozer forward to smooth some ruts in the new road. Employee #1 was struck by the bulldozer, and fell under its partially raised blade. He tried to get out of the way, but became caught under the vehicle's right track. Employee #1 sustained multiple fractures to his left knee and left lower leg, and to both of his feet. He also required skin grafts. A heavy rainstorm earlier that morning had made the ground wet and muddy, lessening the extent of Employee #1's injuries.