Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Hohl Industrial Services Inc, 770 Riverview Blvd, TONAWANDA, NEW YORK 14150
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was at the bottom of a ramp painting a container when a forklift driver backing down the ramp ran over the employee's right leg.
HospitalizedLeg(s), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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