Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at The Martin-Brower Company, 15900 Industrial Way, WALKER, LOUISIANA 70785
on — Fractures, affecting the toes(s), toenail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was moving pallets of products on the warehouse floor. While repositioning an electric pallet jack, her foot was pinned between the pallet jack and an empty pallet. She was hospitalized with lacerations and fractures to the first, fourth, and fifth toes, requiring surgery.
An employee was preparing to make a delivery to a store when his hand was caught in the side lift gate of the trailer. The employee sustained tissue amputations of his middle and ring fingertips and an open fracture to the tuft of his ring finger.
An employee was making a delivery with a truck when their left hand was caught in the lift gate. The left middle finger was severed including part of the nail and required surgery. The employee was hospitalized.
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