Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway · Cuts, lacerations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Joshen Paper & Packaging of Alabama Co. Corp., 3610 U.S. Highway 31 South , CALERA, ALABAMA 35040
on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the thigh(s).
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Final narrative
An employee was operating a stand-up forklift. It backed into a parked forklift and the employee suffered lacerations to the thigh. The employee was hospitalized.
HospitalizedThigh(s)Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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