Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet · Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Defense Logistics Agency, 325 Byron Street, ROBINS A F B, GEORGIA 31098
on — Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c., affecting the multiple body parts, n.e.c..
Final narrative
As an employee was removing a tube from a box while standing on a stair ladder, the box came off the shelf, causing the stair ladder and employee to fall 9.5 feet to the lower level. The employee landed on a box and broke his left hip, left wrist, and several left-side ribs; cut his spleen; and fractured his back vertebrae.
HospitalizedMultiple body parts, n.e.c.Movable ladders, n.e.c.
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