Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201955465 - Employee Is Injured When Struck by a Truck Backing-Up

Accident Summary Nr: 201955465 -- Report ID: 0522000 -- Event Date: 04/01/2008
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
311912604	04/01/2008	5531	441320	Tire Discounters, Inc.

Abstract: On April 1, 2008, employee #1 of Tire Discounters, Inc. store, was helping the truck driver back up and told the driver to pull up a little bit. He was standing to the side of the truck near the rear. When the truck driver did not move up right away, employee #1 looked around the edge of the truck and the driver put the truck in reverse by mistake and struck Employee #1. It is not known if the truck driver was also an employee of Tire Discounters, Inc. Employee #1 suffered a broken jaw. He was taken by air flight to the hospital. There was a working back-up alarm on the truck.

Keywords: FRACTURE, INEXPERIENCE, TRUCK, STRUCK BY, FACE, UNTRAINED, BACKING UP

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	311912604			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Occupation not reported

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