What counts as a preventable accident?

Six months ago on my very 1st assignment up in wisconsin I got in a bad spot at a customer. Had to completely back my way around the building. During that process I hit a patch of snow/ice ripping the front bumper off Didn’t hit nothing else had had any issues since.
So I guess my question is my company has it as a non Dot recordable but with a preventable accident flag, which do I follow when applying to new jobs?

 

A rule for preventable accident.

If you are driving anything with 18 wheels and whatever you hit isnt moving it's preventable.

If you are driving anything with 18 wheels and fail to avoid hitting anything moving, it's preventable.

If you are driving anything with 18 wheels and have it roll over or run off road it's preventable.

Your employment for breaking too much stuff and so forth is itself also preventable.

=)

 

I’d call it a preventable incident.

 

Depends on the company and their ruls. I will say if I was the safety guy at that company, I would list it as a preventable.

 

If you got hit by a comet falling to earth the companies would still find a way to say it was preventable by going back on your logs and finding a mistake a long time ago, then they would claim you should not have been at that location. With the insurance they need to find someone to place the blame on and there you sit.

 

Rip the front bumper off? You must drive a new Cascadia with the low bumper like I have.

 

Could you not just claim you were driving down the road and that you had to run over a gator?

 

Nah it was a 2014, just so happened it was a open field so they snow plowed it and pushed the snow just to the edge of it. If the same situation would’ve happened in may I would’ve been perfectly fine. Just barely scraped it didn’t even notice it until I backe up another 5-10 feet

 

I heard you can drive a Cascadia barefoot in two feet of snow up a long grade like, for example, US 322 in PA.

I can't remember where I read that, but I can't vouch for the reliability of the source.

 

Most of the other posters here are correct, though.

I was told long ago, "If you're behind the wheel, it's preventable."

This was before the dash cam era, though.