| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-08 | Alice | Tx | FedEx Freight, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was climbing down from an 18-wheeler tractor that was jacked up on a tow truck. The employee fell off the steps to the curb, suffering broken ribs. | |||||
| 2021-05-19 | Hoover | Al | BFI Waste Services, LLC | Brain | Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle |
| While out on assignment the employee's vehicle stopped working and needed to be towed for repair. The employee stepped out onto the foot hold on his vehicle at the same time the tow truck driver was trying to hook up the boom from the tow truck. The boom device struck the vehicle and the employee slipped from the foot hold and fell onto the street. The employee was hospitalized for a head injury. | |||||
| 2021-05-14 | Circleville | Oh | Fletcher's Towing Svc | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was winching a vehicle onto a rollback tow truck when their finger became caught between the winch cable and the truck bed, resulting in an injury to a tendon in their left middle finger. | |||||
| 2020-09-22 | Chicago | Il | Envoy Air | Leg(s) | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area |
| While pushing an aircraft out of a hanger using a tow truck, an employee was struck by the aircraft causing fractures to both legs. | |||||
| 2020-04-18 | Toledo | Ohio | Beren Equipment Co. Ltd. | Arm(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
| An employee was unloading a vehicle from a flatbed tow truck. The vehicle slid sideways and its frame pinned his arm against the frame of the tow truck bed. His arm was broken and he was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2020-03-29 | Hermitage | Pennsylvania | Miller Industries, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| An employee had just moved the bed of a tow truck using a winch attached to an overhead crane. As he set the bed down on a cart, the winch detached, came back up toward the employee, and struck his left hand, pinching it against the crane hook. He suffered a partial amputation of the middle finger. | |||||
| 2019-06-19 | Gainesville | Florida | Elite Auto Center of Gainesville, Inc. | Leg(s) | Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue |
| An employee was hooking a front end loader to his tow truck to get it out of a wash pit in a concrete plant. The employee suffered chemical burns to the legs from the 3-foot-deep water the loader was in. He was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-04-20 | Fort Myers | Florida | Alligator Towing & Recovery, Inc. | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport, n.e.c. |
| An employee was bringing a car onto a flatbed tow truck using a winch system when the truck slipped from the winch and hit the employee on the left side of the body. The employee suffered fractured ribs and was hospitalized. | |||||
| 2017-04-01 | Providence | Rhode Island | East Side Service Center Inc | Pelvis | Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle on side of road |
| An employee was outside of his tow truck helping a customer with a tow in the breakdown lane when he was struck by a car, breaking his pelvis. | |||||
| 2017-02-07 | Minneapolis | Minnesota | U.S. Postal Service Minnehaha Station | Hip(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
| An employee slipped in the vehicle parking lot while walking to a tow truck and fractured the right femur. | |||||
| 2016-09-22 | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | Hunter Truck Sales and Service | Pelvis | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area |
| An employee was standing by his service vehicle in the parking lot area when a tow truck backed up and struck him. He was pinned between his service vehicle and the vehicle being towed, breaking his pelvis and requiring surgery. | |||||
| 2016-02-03 | Chicago | Illinois | AAA - The Auto Club Group | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Nonclassifiable |
| An employee suffered a left ring finger amputation when loading a damaged vehicle onto a tow truck. | |||||
| 2015-09-15 | Lincoln | Nebraska | L.T.R Inc. | Lower leg(s) | Struck or run over by rolling powered vehicle |
| An employee was attempting to pull a vehicle onto a flatbed tow truck when it broke free from the tow chain and rolled over the employee's right leg. | |||||
| 2015-09-02 | Cincinnati | Ohio | AAA Alied Group Inc. | Thigh(s) | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
| An employee's right femur broke when a vehicle he was lowering off of a tow truck rolled into him and pinned him against a wall. | |||||
| 2015-08-12 | Griffin | Georgia | Express Employment Personnel | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by dislodged flying object, particle |
| A tow truck hook broke off the tow truck and struck a passing employee on the side breaking ribs and bruising the shoulder. | |||||
| 2015-06-26 | Lancaster | Texas | 24 Hours Wrecker Service | Nonclassifiable | Roadway collision-moving and standing vehicle on side of roadway |
| An employee was sitting in a parked tow truck at 3400 Hwy 75, Richardson, Texas, when another vehicle hit the tow truck from behind. | |||||
| 2015-05-15 | Chippewa Falls | Wisconsin | David E. Wilkens, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling part of powered vehicle still attached |
| An employee was greasing the wheel lift on a tow truck when his hand slipped, causing the lift to fall and crush his left middle fingertip, which eventually had to be amputated. | |||||