Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at 3G Warehouse Inc., 320 Mill Rd, EDISON, NEW JERSEY 08817
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was moving pallets with an electric pallet jack. The employee was backing out of the aisle when falling pallets injured her legs.
An employee was moving a loaded lift from an aisle when it became wedged in the aisle and abruptly stopped, throwing the employee. The employee suffered a concussion, and fractures to two neck vertebrae and the left scapula.
An employee was in the basket of an aerial lift while unloading it from a flatbed trailer. The brake released, causing the aerial lift to strike another lift. The employee sustained a partially collapsed lung, rib fractures, and bleeding from the kidneys.
An employee was moving materials using an all-terrain vehicle when the vehicle struck an overhead boom. The employee's head struck against the steering wheel and he was ejected to the concrete ground. The employee was hospitalized with a head injury.
An employee was loading and unloading palletized material with a powered pallet jack. The pallet jack backed up and the employee's leg was crushed between the pallet jack and a bumper/trailer hitch, resulting in fractures to the right ankle and left tibia.
An employee was operating a forklift and went to grab a hold of the swinging arm to swing it into place. His hand was caught between the forklift and the swing arm, resulting in a middle finger amputation.
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