BAYTOWN, TEXAS—
The Home Depot Distribution Center
Nonroadway noncollision incident, n.e.c. · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at The Home Depot Distribution Center, 6115 Farm to Market 1405, BAYTOWN, TEXAS 77523 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was operating an electric pallet jack to pick up products when their foot slipped off the pallet jack and was struck by the equipment. The employee sustained a foot injury.
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