Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at CVS Distribution Center, 100 S. Trade Center Pkwy, CONROE, TEXAS 77385
on — Fractures, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was operating an aerial lift to put it back in the maintenance area. He placed his left hand on the lift railing and the lift struck some racking, resulting in a fractured left hand.
An employee was on a cherry picker approximately 30 feet high, selecting boxes of merchandise from warehouse racking to place onto a pallet. The employee fell and sustained neck and back injuries.
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An employee was operating an electric pallet jack. Another jack struck the one the employee was driving and the employee's foot was caught between the two jacks. The employee suffered a broken ankle.
An employee working on the pharmacy department pick line tripped on a box and fell, breaking her hip and femur. She was taken to the hospital and admitted for surgery.
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 removing a pallet of merchandise from a truck with a pallet jack. He fell while pulling backward, and his head struck the concrete floor. He suffered a subdural hematoma and was hospitalized.
An employee was stacking rugs. They walked over to the time clock and tripped over a cutout in a floor slab where a pipe was being fixed, falling to the ground and resulting in a left hip injury.
An employee was cleaning a filling machine when he observed defective caps locked in the supply channels to the capper. He put the capper in manual mode and manually moved the joint with his left hand as he tried to remove the crowns with his right hand. During this operation, one of his fingers entered the moving machine, severing his fingertip.
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An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.