Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at COCA COLA, 3400 FOSSIL CREEK BLVD., FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76137
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was driving a pallet jack when he pressed the wrong direction on the machine and caught his fingers in between the pallet jack and a rack.
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