Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., 1410 HWY 34, YORK, NEBRASKA 68467
on — Fractures, affecting the wrist(s).
Final narrative
An employee was driving a forklift close to a stack of crates and his left hand was caught between the forklift's protective cage and the stacked crates causing a broken wrist.
HospitalizedWrist(s)Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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