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Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries

1 hospitalization · 2024098320 · 9/7/2024 · C W Matthews Contracting Co Inc

Severity

Hospitalized
1
Amputation
0
Loss of eye
0
Body part
Multiple body parts n.e.c.
Nature of injury
Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries

Cause

Event
Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in road work zone
Source
Straight trucks, box trucks
Secondary source
Secondary source not applicable

Employer

Name
C W Matthews Contracting Co Inc
Location
102 Jimmy Carter Blvd, BUFORD, GEORGIA, 30515
NAICS
237310
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

A traffic control crew was picking up road barrier barrels and loading them onto a trailer. A box truck rear-ended a police car, struck the traffic control trailer, and struck two traffic control employees. One of the employees was hospitalized with a severe laceration to their liver and fractures to their right tibia and fibula, as well as their left arm.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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