Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at J.L. Clark LLC, 923 23rd Ave, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS 61104
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the thigh(s).
Final narrative
While a truck was being moved, a conveyor shifted in a trailer. An employee went up into the trailer to move the conveyor. The conveyor began to tip and struck the employee in the right thigh.
HospitalizedThigh(s)Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
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