Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at I Supply Co., 1255 Spangler Road, FAIRBORN, OHIO 45324
on — Fractures, affecting the pelvis.
Final narrative
On or about June 9, 2015, an employee was injured when a forklift truck backed into and pinned the employee between the wall and a trailer. The employee sustained a right hip injury and broken pelvis.
HospitalizedPelvisForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
On May 7, 2024, an employee was delivering product from a 48-foot trailer when it started to drizzle. On his way down the ramp with a loaded dolly, he picked up momentum. He tried to slow down to avoid hitting a car when he slipped and the dolly and product fell onto his right leg and ankle. The employee sustained a broken and dislocated ankle.
An employee was looking into the bucket of a front-end loader to see how much material was in it. A skid steer backed into the employee, who then fell into the edge of the front loader's bucket and suffered internal bleeding in the abdominal area.
An employee was spotting for a forklift operation. The forklift backed over the employee, who suffered a complete amputation to one lower leg and a partial amputation to the other leg. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was cleaning his work area and preparing it to begin making air-set molds
when a nearby forklift that was backing out from a load swung around and struck the employee. They sustained a lower left leg fracture.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was picking items from the freezer section of the warehouse. When he stepped down onto the floor, he turned on the planted foot, and felt a "pop" and pain in his knee. The employee was hospitalized with a dislocated knee and two torn tendons. He required surgery to repair the tendons.
At 7:40 a.m. on October 3, 2025, an employee was unloading a bulkhead at a dock door. As he pulled the bulkhead out of a trailer, its plastic lip caught on the dock plate, causing the employee to fall and twist his left leg, knee, and hip. The hip was broken and he was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.
An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.
On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.
An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.
An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.