Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at XPO Logistics LTL, 155 Railroad Ave, ALBANY, NEW YORK 12205
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was standing behind his forklift, scanning freight when another forklift backed out of a trailer into him and injured his right leg.
HospitalizedLeg(s), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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