Nonroadway collision with other vehicle, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Glister Mary Lee Corporation , 1037 State Street, CHESTER, ILLINOIS 62233
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the ankle(s).
Final narrative
The injured employee was moving a load of product with a pallet jack on the front loading dock of the building. Another employee was operating a sit down forklift and struck the pallet jack pinning the injured employee's left leg between the pallet jack and the forklift resulting in an ankle injury.
HospitalizedAnkle(s)Pallet jack-powered
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