Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Cuts, lacerations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at GEODIS Logistics LLC, 2780 McDonough St., JOLIET, ILLINOIS 60436
on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was driving an electric pallet jack to pick an order in an aisle of the facility when the pallet jack struck the leg of a rack. The employee's left thumb became pinched between the pallet jack and the rack, resulting in a deep laceration.
An employee was performing preventative maintenance on a down-chute conveyor line when the non-motorized pivot gate was released. The gate caught the employee's right index finger, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation.
An employee was operating a forklift and coming out of an aisle when her foot was crushed between the forklift and a pallet jack that another employee was operating.
At about 6:00 a.m. on January 27, 2021, an employee was using a powered industrial truck (PIT) to load a trailer with product. The trailer pulled away causing the PIT and the employee to fall out of the trailer onto the tarmac. The employee suffered a lower back strain.
An employee was training on an rolling container carrier on the dry, non-frozen storage side of the distribution center. She made a turn around the end cap and her right foot struck the rail protecting the endcap racking. The employee's foot was fractured.
An employee was a passenger in a utility vehicle that was driving up a hill on a wooded trail. As the vehicle made a right turn, three fingers on the employee's right hand were caught against a tree and fractured.
An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.
A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.
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An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.
An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.