Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Performance Food Service, 3501 Old Oakwood Road, FLOWERY BRANCH, GEORGIA 30542
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was operating an electric pallet jack when he was pinned between the jack and a rack. He suffered a leg injury.
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