Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Concussions
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at The Giant Company, 950 Walnut Bottom Road, CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA 17015
on — Concussions, affecting the brain.
Final narrative
An employee was walking into a parking lot to collect shopping carts. A pickup truck backed into the employee and knocked them to the ground. The employee's head struck the pavement and the employee suffered a concussion.
An employee was moving pallets of water. A pallet started to lean, and the employee moved to its side to push the 35-pack of water and straighten the product on the pallet. The water fell and knocked the employee to the ground, and the employee suffered a dislocation to the left hip as well as a fracture to the hip socket. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
A pallet was being moved through a store backroom on a powered pallet jack. The side of the pallet struck an employee, causing them to fall to the floor and suffer a broken left hip.
An employee was collecting shopping carts in the parking lot when they lost their balance and fell to the pavement. The employee sustained a fracture to the shoulder.
An employee was standing on a piece of cardboard in the bakery department when she lost her balance. While trying to brace her fall, both her hands went into the hot oil in a donut fryer. She sustained burns to both hands up to the wrists and was hospitalized.
An employee was looking into the bucket of a front-end loader to see how much material was in it. A skid steer backed into the employee, who then fell into the edge of the front loader's bucket and suffered internal bleeding in the abdominal area.
An employee was spotting for a forklift operation. The forklift backed over the employee, who suffered a complete amputation to one lower leg and a partial amputation to the other leg. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was cleaning his work area and preparing it to begin making air-set molds
when a nearby forklift that was backing out from a load swung around and struck the employee. They sustained a lower left leg fracture.
Employee 1 was investigating a gas odor. While employee 1 was checking the equipment, a gas explosion occurred, resulting in a fire that burned the employee's face. Employee 2 entered the area and a second explosion occurred, causing burns to their face and arms. Employee 2 was hospitalized.
An employee tripped while walking from one store register station to another. Her forehead struck a register, and she suffered fractures to two vertebrae in her neck. She was hospitalized.
An employee was stocking and ordering the meat case on the sales floor when he slipped and fell due to water on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.