Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Coca Cola, 8161 Moberly Lane, DALLAS, TEXAS 75227
on — Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c., affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was working at the loading dock, lowering an automatic dock leveler to unload a trailer. The lift gate on the trailer was raised 4 to 6 inches above floor level when the dock leveler caught against the lift gate. When the employee reached down at the floor level to operate the switch that controls the lift gate, the leveler struck the employee's left hand, breaking two fingers and causing severe lacerations.
HospitalizedHand(s), unspecifiedRamps, loading docks, dock plates
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An employee was trying to park a pallet jack when his right foot was pinned and fractured between the pallet jack he was parking and the jack parked in the space next to him. He was hospitalized.
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