Pedestrian struck by vehicle propelled by another vehicle in nonroadway area · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at KURIYAMA OF AMERICA, INC., 360 E. STATE PARKWAY, SCHAUMBURG, ILLINOIS 60173
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee was positioning a pallet load on the forks of a reach truck when a coworker backed his reach truck into the employee's reach truck. The reach truck's outrigger ran over his left foot.
HospitalizedFoot (feet), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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