Not Even In The Truck

Can a company put an accident on a driver's record even tho the driver was not even in the truck at the time. The truck was parked in a "staging area" on the property of a milk receiving plant, the driver had walked his paperwork into the receiving office and was walking back to his truck when another truck was pulling out of the "staging area" to get on the scales when he "clipped" the left front fender of my truck. Very little damage, which was never repaired, no police since it occurred on private property. No accident report was ever filled out by myself, but yet a few weeks ago I find out that this accident is in my personnel file as an accident. This happened over 2 years ago and just came to light when I applied for another trucking job.

 

Listen, maybe I did not state that fact. I did call it in. You think I just "got off the boat yesterday". My god! Been at this for 54 years and get a question like this.

 

No it states on my file that it was "Non-Preventable".

 

You know explaining it to some drivers is like talking to a pole. I never found out about it being put on my record, in other words to make it very clear to a 5 year old, it only came to my attention when another company who was interested in hiring me ran a reference with my present employer. Yes, I did call it in the moment it happened, No, I never filled out an accident report because the present employer never required one. During the "call-in", after I gave the General Manager all the details, his words were O.K. forget about it. Which I did.
Should have known better to even mention it here, from some of the responses,