In February of 2011, a 39-year-old truck driver working outside his semi-trailer truck died when he was struck and crushed against his trailer by a semi-trailer truck that swung wide as it pulled out of an adjacent parking stall. The victim was employed by a general freight trucking company that transports refrigerated goods. He had 10 years' experience driving semi-trailer trucks. On the day of the incident, the victim was assigned by his dispatcher to pick up freight consisting of a full trailer load of chilled boxed beef at a customer's meat processing facility. The victim drove his truck to the customer location. He then drove to the empty trailer lot portion of the yard where he unhooked and dropped his refrigeration trailer. An employee of the facility hooked the trailer to a yard hostler and hauled it to the loading dock to be loaded with freight. After the trailer was loaded, the hostler operator deposited the trailer in the loaded trailer lot. Located across from the loading dock, the lot's surface is a mixture of asphalt and concrete with yellow lines marking the parking stalls. There are often several trailers parked in the lot. It is a part of the yard where loaded trailers are left awaiting their drivers who then back their trucks up to their trailers and hook them up and prepare for departure. Drivers may pick-up their trailers at any time during the day or night. The victim backed his truck up to his trailer and hooked it up. As he was doing this and preparing to depart, he chatted with the driver of a truck in the adjacent parking stall who was also preparing to depart. The driver of the other truck finished his pre-trip check and got into the cab of his truck. He reported that he last saw the victim standing at the rear of his own truck's trailer. Less than a minute after last seeing the victim the other driver checked his mirrors and started moving the truck forward out of the stall. As he drove forward he made a sharp turn to the left in order to avoid a hostler parked in front of his truck. The victim was standing on the driver's side of his trailer near the front cranking up his trailer's landing gear. It was dark and he was not wearing the high-visibility safety vest which his employer had issued him. As the other truck moved forward and swung left the right rear of its trailer struck the victim. The driver was not aware that the victim had been struck and proceeded to leave the yard. The victim died at the scene. Recommendations: To prevent similar occurrences in the future, Washington State Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) investigators concluded that to protect employees from the hazard of being struck by a moving truck while working outside of their truck in parking, and freight loading/unloading areas employers and facility owners should follow these guidelines: 1. Perform a site survey of facilities with truck loading and unloading areas, parking areas, and yards where there is truck traffic to identify potential truck vs. pedestrian hazards and take corrective actions to prevent pedestrians being struck by trucks. 2. Design site layout of facilities and internal truck traffic routes to provide adequate space for trucks to safely maneuver, load, unload, and park. Facility design should also provide for safe passage for pedestrians. The level of lighting should be sufficient for safe vehicle and pedestrian activity. 3. Host facilities should create and enforce a policy requiring drivers to wear a high-visibility safety vest when outside their vehicle. 4. Train drivers to initiate and maintain communication with other drivers when working outside their truck in parking, loading, and unloading areas so as to ensure that their activities do not put them at risk of being struck by the movement of other trucks. 5. Provide truck drivers with appropriate high-visibility safety vests and train them to ensure that they are worn in an effective manner whenever they exit their vehicle. 6. Install appropriate mirrors on all fleet trucks to ensure that drivers have superior visibility and that blind spots on the right side of the vehicle are eliminated. 7. Truck manufacturers, equipment designers, and researchers should continue to develop onboard systems and equipment that allow truck drivers to better detect pedestrians.