Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Maines Paper & Food Service, Inc., 199 Oakleaf Oval, OAKWOOD VILLAGE, OHIO 44146
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee at the warehouse placed a 35-pound box of degreaser on the forks of a motorized stand-on powered industrial vehicle and hit the wrong button, causing the PIV to move backwards and pin the employee against the rack system. The employee suffered a crushing fracture to the left leg.
HospitalizedLeg(s), unspecifiedIndustrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, unspecified
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