Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part · Crushing injuries
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at International Paper Co, 3019 East 16th Street, RUSSELLVILLE, ARKANSAS 72802
on — Crushing injuries, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
Two employees were about to use clamp trucks to move damaged rolls of paper. One employee got off his truck and walked toward the second truck. A roll of paper became unstable, fell and crushed the employee's left leg.
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An employee was transporting an 800-pound die on a cart from the tool room. The employee was pulling the cart when it struck a metal plate on the floor. This caused the cart to tip forward and the die to slide off the cart. The die struck the employee's left foot and their second toe was amputated.
An employee was using a forklift to load pallets of product on a trailer. He exited the forklift to adjust a pallet by hand. The pallet fell on him, resulting in an injury to the left leg.
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