Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at American Custom Drying CO, 109 ELBOW LANE, BURLINGTON, NEW JERSEY 08016
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee's foot got caught under a forklift, requiring overnight hospitalization.
HospitalizedFoot (feet), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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