Wallingford, CT — Police have identified 52-year-old Glen Ford as the man who was seriously injured when he was hit by a box truck in Wallingford, Connecticut, on Saturday, August 8, 2015. The accident took place at a United States Postal Service processing plant, around 5:00 in the afternoon.
Local sources say that Ford was in the parking lot at the time of the accident. The truck involved in the accident — driven by 46-year-old Joseph Gallo — was backing up to a loading dock when it knocked him down before running him over.
Emergency workers rushed Ford to Yale-New Haven Hospital. His exact condition isn’t known.
Right now, the accident is being investigated by local authorities, as well as OSHA.
Scene of the Accident
View from the Road
Commentary
Local reports say that the truck in question belongs to FMP Transport LLC, which is a contractor for the USPS. Technically speaking, this makes them a third party. Now, whenever a worker is hurt in the an accident like this, their employer will usually have a workers’ comp policy that will step in an pay out benefits to cover hospital bills and things like this. Workers’ comp laws — in most cases — won’t allow an injured employee to pursue a negligence claim against their employee, but will allow them to pursue a claim against any third parties involved in the accident (provided they contributed to the accident happening). But, beyond the actual law that governs accidents like this, we just have to take a very realistic look at what happened. When you’re backing up, things come from behind you. You look behind you to make sure you don’t hit these things. It sounds like the driver involved here wasn’t doing as good a job with that as he should have been, and that’s something he needs to answer for.
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