WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS—
R.H. WHITE CONSTRUCTION
Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area · Crushing injuries
Final narrative
An employee was guiding a trailer-mounted compressor that was suspended by the bucket of a loader. He had positioned the suspended compressor's trailer hitch so that it could be lowered onto a tow vehicle's pintle hitch when his left foot/ankle was struck and ran over by the loader's left front wheel. He was hospitalized.
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