City Sanitation Refuse Truck Driver Struck-By Motorist - North Carolina: FACE 2022-01

Details

• Personal Author:
  Fowler, Melanie L. ; Romano, Nancy T. ; Lincoln, Jennifer E.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On July 20, 2020, at 11:38 am, a 55-year-old city sanitation refuse truck driver was struck-by a motorist. The refuse truck driver was loading trash along with a sanitation technician on a small business sanitation route with roughly 80 customers. The incident occurred on a 4-lane median divided road in an urban business area. The speed limit posted on the roadway was 45 mph. The city sanitation refuse truck driver was at the back driver side of the refuse truck loading trash along with a sanitation technician who was positioned at the back passenger side of the truck at the time of the incident. A male motorist in his mid-60s did not brake or change lanes away from the refuse truck and collided with the refuse truck, pinning the sanitation refuse truck driver. The sanitation refuse truck driver was transported to the hospital where he later died as a result of his crushing injuries.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Automobiles
  • Crush Injuries
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 4
  • Traumatic injuries
  • Safety practices
  • Injury prevention
  • Refuse collection
  • Waste disposal
  • Sanitation
  • Vehicle safety
  • Motor vehicles
  • Training
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Motor Vehicles ; Waste Management and Remediation Services ; Motor Vehicles - Refuse Truck
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE202201
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  16 pdf pages
• Volume:
  2022
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067559
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  56 - Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services - (NAICS 2022) ; 562111 - Solid Waste Collection - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  2020/07/20
• Resource Number:
  FACE 2022-01
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167239/cdc_167239_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.09 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c9b5af0bf6103f25713df596d161c5d0c252538553ba8c960931cbdd67b5b619b663e9c348b46a73bc5340d29ef76f49b2d6a7f9a29b06f76e20829c274c1c50