Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Tropicana Products, Inc., 1001 13th Avenue E, BRADENTON, FLORIDA 34208
on — Fractures, affecting the ankle(s) and leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was hospitalized after being hit by a forklift that was unloading boxes of pulp from a flatbed stationed in the roadway. The forklift backed up and ran over the employee's leg as he was leaving work, resulting in a fractured ankle and leg.
HospitalizedAnkle(s) and leg(s), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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