OREFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA—
Lineage Logistics
Nonroadway collision with object other than vehicle, n.e.c. · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Lineage Logistics, 3824 pa-309, OREFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA 18069 on — Fractures, affecting the chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders.
Final narrative
An employee was operating an electric pallet jack to move empty pallets around the facility when the vehicle struck an angle iron barricade in the warehouse. The employee sustained rib fractures.
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FORT WORTH, TEXAS—
Lineage Logistics
Employees were conducting inventory in the rail room. A forklift operator had moved four pallets of boxes into a storage location (bulk stacking) and pulled away. The injured employee entered this location to perform cycle counting/inventory and the stack of pallets fell forward, landing on the employee's right leg and back. The employee was hospitalized for a compound fracture to his right leg that required surgery.
GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA—
Lineage Logistics
An employee was operating a forklift in the loading dock area. They put a loaded pallet of product into a pallet invertor, then backed out of the pallet, and exited the forklift. Another forklift then struck the employee's left leg and pinned it against the employee's forklift. The employee's leg was lacerated.
GENEVA, ILLINOIS—
Lineage Logistics
An employee was operating an electric pallet jack when it struck a stationary pallet jack. The employee's right foot was caught between the two pallet jacks and fractured.
BOLINGBROOK, ILLINOIS—
Lineage Logistics
An employee was working in the freezer storage space of a warehouse throughout the evening when they sustained frostbite of the fingers.
GENEVA, ILLINOIS—
Lineage Logistics
An employee was checking temperatures with his pallet jack parked behind him. A reach truck came around a corner and struck the parked pallet jack, which rolled onto the employee's legs and knocked him to the ground. He suffered an ankle dislocation and a hairline fracture.
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