Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, n.e.c.
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Bottling Group, LLC, 6100 NE Loop 410, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78218
on — Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders, n.e.c., affecting the lower leg(s).
Final narrative
An employee was operating a walkie rider outside the warehouse in the canopy area when the walkie slid into a canopy pole. The employee's right leg was caught between the pole and the walkie, causing a laceration and nerve/tissue damage to the employee's lower right calf. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was securing a trailer and preparing to depart a customer location. To exit the lift gate, he jumped approximately 12 to 18 inches to the ground and strained his left knee.
An employee was making a right turn on an unloaded powered pallet jack and lost control. The employee jumped off the pallet jack and the pallet jack then pinched his right ankle against a pallet of finished goods, fracturing it.
An employee was moving a powered pallet jack when their ankle was pinned between the jack and a racking system resulting in a broken ankle and a ruptured Achilles tendon. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was accompanying a quality inspector who was conducting an annual quality audit on the beverage can filler production area. The quality inspector asked to see a strainer located on the piping housing. The employee proceeded to remove the strainer from the piping line. While attempting to remove the strainer, the strainer ejected from the piping and struck the employee above the left eye. The employee sustained a concussion and a laceration above the left eye.
An employee was training on an rolling container carrier on the dry, non-frozen storage side of the distribution center. She made a turn around the end cap and her right foot struck the rail protecting the endcap racking. The employee's foot was fractured.
An employee was a passenger in a utility vehicle that was driving up a hill on a wooded trail. As the vehicle made a right turn, three fingers on the employee's right hand were caught against a tree and fractured.
An employee was delivering beverages when he fell from the truck's liftgate to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured wrist, a dislocated shoulder, and bruised ribs.
An employee was performing maintenance under a van. The van slipped off the jack and struck the employee, who suffered broken ribs in the left upper torso. The employee was hospitalized.
During scheduled preventative maintenance, an employee was searching for vertical bagger shafts. Upon locating a box thought to contain new shafts, the employee removed two high-powered magnets from bubble wrap. The magnets forcefully attracted to each other and amputated the employee's fingertip.
An employee was walking beside a pallet jack while operating it and became pinned between the pallet jack and some pallets. The employee sustained a fractured left leg.
An employee was replenishing product in a warehouse aisle. They collapsed and fell onto their back, striking their head on the concrete and suffering a laceration to the back of their head and injuries requiring hospitalization and brain surgery.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.