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OSHA Injury Report: Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN

Injury · Days away from work

On , an injury at Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN in Loudon, TN 37774 resulted in days away from work. Employee was over the Road Truck Driver in general freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL).

Establishment
Purdy Brothers Trucking Loudon, TN
Parent company
Purdy Brothers Trucking, LLC
Street
199 Commercial Park Drive
City
Loudon
State
TN
ZIP
37774
On-site location
I-40 West Rest Area - Jackson TN
Outcome
Days away from work (code 2)
Type
Injury (code 1)
Days away from work
40

Driver was going to a rest area on [REDACTED] to walk her dog. As she was approaching the rest area she saw a glow near a trailer tire out of her passenger side mirror. She stopped at the rest area and grabbed her fire extinguisher. She went to the rear of the trailer and deployed her fire extinguisher.

As the fire was being extinguished the heat from the fire caused the brake chamber to blow and caused her to fall.

Head contusion fractured patella to R knee.

Brake chamber

R knee injury after brake chamber blew on the rear of trailer from fire causing the driver to fall at ground level.

Job description
Over the Road Truck Driver
SOC code
53-3032 — Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
NAICS code
484121 — General freight trucking, long-distance, truckload (TL)
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
193
Total hours worked
472152
EIN
471655633
Establishment ID
616138
Employer case #
202300205
Date of incident
Shift started
1:00:00.000
Time of incident
4:30:00.000
Submitted
28FEB24:15:39:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.