Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Liberty Coca Cola Beverages LLC, 977 East 149 St, BRONX, NEW YORK 10455
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee's right foot was run over by the left side of a forklift.
HospitalizedFoot (feet), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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