Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Abbyland Foods, Inc., 502 E. Linden St. , ABBOTSFORD, WISCONSIN 54405
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee using a pallet jack, which was trailing behind him, attempted to walk through flap doors while a forklift operator was driving through the doors from the opposite direction. The forklift had a pallet on the forks. The operator drove forward, blew the horn, and continued to drive through the doors, hitting the employee on the left leg with the pallet.
HospitalizedLeg(s), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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