Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Target Corp., 129 N. Road, WILTON, NEW YORK 12831
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was operating a forklift when her foot was pinned and injured. The employee was hospitalized.
HospitalizedFoot (feet), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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