Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at HSG Farms, 40 Easton Line Rd, FORT FAIRFIELD, MAINE 04742
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the head and neck.
Final narrative
An employee was using a forklift to stack hay bales when some hay bales fell onto the cage. The employee was ejected from the forklift and landed on the ground, resulting in head and neck trauma that required hospitalization.
HospitalizedHead and neckForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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