Ran off driving surface, nonroadway · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at R & L Carriers Shared Services, L.L.C., 95 Oates Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77013
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was operating a forklift in a trailer. The trailer pulled away from the dock; when the employee backed out, the forklift fell to the ground below, and the employee suffered an injury to the left foot that required surgery.
HospitalizedFoot (feet), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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