PORT CHARLOTTE, FLORIDA—
Waste Management Inc. of Florida
Fall or jump from and struck by same vehicle in normal operation, roadway · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
Final narrative
A temporary employee was riding on the passenger side of a yard waste truck. When the employee got out of the truck as it approached waste cans, the right front truck tire drove over his left foot. He was hospitalized.
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