Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Logistics Insight, 1200 Mason Dixon Lane, CONLEY, GEORGIA 30288
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee walked out of a trailer and was struck by a forklift that backed out of an adjacent trailer. The employee sustained injury to her left foot.
HospitalizedFoot (feet), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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