Sanitation Worker Struck by Backing Refuse Truck - North Carolina: FACE 2021-01

Details

• Personal Author:
  Lincoln, Jennifer E. ; Kraynak, Stephanie
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On February 14, 2020, at 8:40 a.m., an employee of a city public works department was engaged in manual garbage pickup on a refuse truck on a residential route. The three-person crew included an operator and two sanitation workers who rode on the outside step of the truck as it moved from one stop to the next. The sanitation worker riding on the outside step of the refuse truck was startled by a pick-up truck backing up from an adjacent residence towards him and the backing refuse truck. The sanitation worker jumped off the refuse truck, ran behind the refuse truck and was fatally struck by the refuse truck.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Automobiles
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • Waste Management
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 4
  • Injuries
  • Traumatic injuries
  • Safety practices
  • Hazard recognition
  • Injury prevention
  • Refuse collection
  • Waste disposal
  • Sanitation
  • Vehicle safety
  More +
• 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/NIOSHFACE202101
• 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 ; OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  16 pdf pages
• Volume:
  2021
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065327
• 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:
  2022
• 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:
  2020/02/14
• Resource Number:
  FACE 2021-01
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167241/cdc_167241_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.12 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1601916c33000dd8e7802e5563a4780d14c276446c33b58c308dd48b5ddb1b44c0591f98715aec5a240679e13935407179eaf28d143a60411dfc6169e85e6a98