Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Intracranial injuries and injuries to internal organs
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at R & L Carriers Shared Services, L.L.C., 727 Spring Meadow Road, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA 31533
on — Intracranial injuries and injuries to internal organs, affecting the head and trunk.
Final narrative
An employee was inside a truck trailer pulling a crate by hand using its banding straps when the straps broke. The employee fell approximately 4 feet backward off the trailer's lift gate onto the asphalt ground, sustaining a skull fracture, several broken ribs, brain bleeding and swelling, a fractured sternum, and a collapsed lung.
HospitalizedHead and trunkSemi, tractor-trailer, tanker truck
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