Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Lazer Spot Inc., 6525 Shiloh Road Suite 900, ALPHARETTA, GEORGIA 30005
on — Fractures, affecting the pelvis.
Final narrative
A truck driver was closing the doors on his trailer when another truck struck the trailer causing the truck to bounce and shake erratically. The driver suffered a broken pelvis and a laceration across his back.
A driver was retrieving paperwork from the trailer. He climbed onto the elevated trailer deck for the paperwork and upon attempting to get down from the back of the trailer, he fell approximately 4 feet onto the concrete surface. The employee sustained a fractured hip and wrist.
An employee was driving a truck and pulling an empty trailer from a dock door at a warehouse facility. As the empty trailer moved to a drop lot, the truck and trailer rolled over. The employee sustained broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a lacerated spleen.
A trailer was moved to reposition itself while the doors were open. An employee was behind the trailer when product on the trailer fell onto him, knocking him to the ground. The employee suffered a hairline neck fracture and intracranial hemorrhage.
An employee opened the back door of a trailer and a boxed hot water heater fell from the top of a double stacked row and struck him on the shoulder, knocking him to the ground and resulting in a right hip fracture.
When a driver opened the tractor trailer door, the safety strap came off the trailer and product struck the driver on the head, causing him to fall to the ground. The driver sustained a fracture to the lower back.
Two employees were walking through the warehouse behind a forklift that was moving pallets of 30-foot metal bottom bars. When the forklift reversed, the top of the forklift struck a box of metal bottom bars on top of racking, causing the box to fall and strike the two employees. They were both taken to the hospital; one employee was treated and released without being admitted. The other employee was hospitalized with a fractured left orbital bone and an injured right knee.
The injured employee was spray painting lay flat shipping reels while another employee was picking up the reels with a telehandler after they were painted. The telehandler bumped a reel, causing other reels to fall. The injured employee was caught between the reels, resulting in broken left femur.
An employee was installing an aerial drop cable across a roadway. The employee was on a ladder positioned against a telephone pole. Cable had been installed on one side of the roadway. The employee was making the connection to the pole on the opposite side of the roadway when a box truck contacted the cable, causing the employee to fall onto the grass of the customer's yard. The employee sustained broken ribs and was hospitalized.
An employee was performing routine housekeeping duties when a bale of plastic bottles slid off the forks of a forklift that was backing out of a trailer. The bale struck the employee, pushing her into another machine. The employee suffered a fractured rib and punctured lung.
An employee was using a 4-by-4 to straighten a pack of wood. A forklift nudged the 4-by-4, which caused the employee's right hand to be caught between it and the pack of wood. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the right ring finger.
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