Nonroadway collision with other vehicle, n.e.c. · Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at B O X PARTNERS, 2650 Galvin Dr., ELGIN, ILLINOIS 60124
on — Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c., affecting the chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders.
Final narrative
An employee was operating a forklift, which had a T-bone collision with another forklift. The employee suffered four broken right ribs, a bruised right lung, and skin bruising and was hospitalized.
HospitalizedChest, except internal location of diseases or disordersForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
An employee was traveling down an aisleway in a three-wheeled golf cart. They were moving around a parked forklift when a material cart came from the opposite direction. A wheel on the material cart caught a piece of racking causing the material cart to swing out and hit the injured employee's golf cart. The material cart continued to swing, hitting the injured employee's left leg. The injured employee was also knocked out of the golf cart and landed on the ground 2-3 feet away.
The injured employee sustained fractures to the left leg, requiring hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was riding on a flatbed trailer when his left foot was caught between the trailer and a trackhoe. He sustained a laceration to his left foot that required stitches and hospitalization.
Employees were operating a baggage tractor on a service road. The tractor made contact with an aircraft's left wing and the seat of the tractor was ripped off. The employees were thrown to the ground. Two employees were hospitalized with injuries including a chipped tooth, bruises and abrasions, a dislocated hip, a fractured humerus bone, and a laceration to the left knee.
An employee was driving his vehicle (golf cart style) to an aircraft when he passed by two large baggage carts and was T-boned by another vehicle. He was hospitalized with a broken left leg.
An employee was driving a dead forklift being pushed by a second forklift when the second forklift's forks slipped and hit the employee's foot. The employee was hospitalized due to crushed bones in the foot.
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