Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Gordon Food Services, 411 Mercy Dr., ORLANDO, FLORIDA 32805
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was unloading a pallet from a dock when a forklift operator drove over the employee's right foot. He was hospitalized.
HospitalizedAmputationFoot (feet), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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