Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Veritiv Operating Company, 6600 Governor's Lake Parkway, NORCROSS, GEORGIA 30071
on — Fractures, affecting the nonclassifiable.
Final narrative
An employee was on a forklift loading/unloading trailers when the trailer he was on pulled away from the dock door. The forklift with the employee strapped in fell four feet and landed upright. The employee suffered a fractured vertebra.
HospitalizedNonclassifiableForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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