Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at XPO Logistics, Inc., 928 Suncrest Lane, ENGLEWOOD, FLORIDA 34223
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was delivering material to a jobsite, slipped off the lift gate of a truck and fell to the ground. The employee suffered a hip injury.
An employee was standing on a loading dock near the end of a trailer. As the employee was stepping backward, they were struck on their right side by a crate that a forklift was transporting. The employee was pushed off balance and into a steel beam on their left side. They suffered a broken left arm.
On October 5, 2022, at approximately 11:30 AM, an employee jumped off a semi-trailer from a height of approximately 4 feet. The employee impacted the ground, and was hospitalized with a broken bone in their right lower leg.
An employee was on top of a roof changing a light bulb. The employee fell through the roof to the concrete floor about 25 feet below, suffering a broken neck and three broken back vertebrae.
An employee opened a trailer's rear door and was struck on the right foot by forklift blades that had been stored on a pallet and shifted during transportation, resulting in a contusion.
At 5:08 a.m. on March 16, 2022, an employee was operating a forklift near a dock. The forklift backed out of the dock door into an empty space without a trailer and fell to the ground about 4 feet below. It then rolled onto its side and caused fractures to the employee's right hand, left leg, and left foot. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.
An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.
An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.
An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.
An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.
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