Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Lineage Logistics, 2088 Geneva Drive, GENEVA, ILLINOIS 60134
on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).
Final narrative
An employee was operating a stand-up counterbalanced forklift and was attempting to push a stack of empty pallets using the rear, passenger compartment side of the forklift. As the pallets were being pushed, they became lodged between a rack and the forklift, causing the wooden pallets to break. Pieces of a broken pallet entered the passenger compartment of the forklift and struck the employee in the left leg, fracturing his tibia and fibula.
HospitalizedLower leg(s)Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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