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 Dish Network LLC, 205 Satellite Blvd NE, SUWANEE, GEORGIA 30024
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee was using a forklift to fill orders in a warehouse and attempting to retrieve a pallet between two stacks of other pallets. As he was driving between the two stacks, his foot was caught on a pallet on the left side of the forklift, pinning his leg between the pallet and the forklift. His left leg broke, requiring hospitalization.
HospitalizedLeg(s), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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