# Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at C W Matthews Contracting Co Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024098320` · 9/7/2024 · BUFORD, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **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.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*