CINCINNATI, OHIO—
XPO Logistics Freight
Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at XPO Logistics Freight, 5289 Duff Drive, CINCINNATI, OHIO 45246 on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).
Final narrative
An employee was unloading a trailer using a forklift. He left the forklift and removed a strap securing freight to the wall on a deck over other freight. One or more of the four beams running from one side of the trailer to the other failed, and the freight fell forward onto him. He suffered a broken fibula and tibia.
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An employee was manually maneuvering a pallet onto its side for loading into a trailer door when he fell backward off the dock onto the cement surface, striking his head on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a contusion to the head.
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While installing a placard on a truck, an employee fell backward and hit his head on the concrete. He was hospitalized for possible bleeding on the brain.
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An employee unloading a crate attempted to turn the crate near the rear of a trailer so that he could get a pallet jack under the crate. A board broke off the crate and the employee fell out the rear of the trailer, landing on the ground and suffering a fractured pelvis that required hospitalization and surgery.
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An employee was loading a trailer with freight when an unsecured axle tipped over and landed on the employee's right foot, breaking the big toe and lacerating three other toes.
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