Reference no: EM133185790

Purpose:

Incident reports are an important genre of informal reports.  Nothing is learned from unreported incidents. Hazards, causes, and contributing circumstances are lost if not reported. Employees who don't take the time to report near misses they are involved in may not learn from them. The fact that many incidents come within inches of being disabling injury accidents makes failing to report them all the more serious. When incidents are not reported, their causes usually go uncorrected. That means they may happen again, perhaps producing tomorrow's disabling injury or fatality. This assignment will require you to write an incident report. 

Instructions:

Assume that you are the traffic manager of a trucking company that has had four highway accidents within a one-week period. Using the following facts, write an incident report to your company's President, Michael Spangler. Here are some details to consider as your report in memo form: 

• Your company operates in California
• The four accidents occurred in different cities across the state (Chico, Turlock, San Diego, and Lancaster) and on different dates and times (you make up the dates and times)
• Each accident resulted in damage not only to the truck (specific dollar amount of the damage is up to you) but to the cargo as well (specify the type of cargo and the dollar amount of the damage for each accident)
• Only one of the accidents involved injury to a company driver (give the driver's name and specify the injury and his current condition)
• Only one of the accidents involved another vehicle (a company truck swerved into a parked car when a tire blew out). Give the make and year of the damaged car and its owner's name.
• Your maintenance division traced all four of the accidents to faulty tires, all of the same brand (Flightfire Tire) and all purchased at Phil's Tire Depot in Modesto, CA on January 2, 2020.
• The tires have now been replaced, and your insurance company, Acme Underwriters, has brought suit against the tire manufacturer to recover damages, including lost business while the four trucks were being repaired (specify the dollar amount of the lost business).