Pedestrian struck by forward-moving vehicle in nonroadway area · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Chick-fil-A, 2002 Veterans Boulevard, DUBLIN, GEORGIA 31021
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was taking orders at a drive-through. As they walked between two cars, the rear car accelerated and pinned the employee against the other car. They sustained a right leg fracture and a left leg muscle injury.
An employee was delivering food to a customer's home. She walked up to the front door and a dog came running out from the house. The dog bit the employee's left knee. The employee was hospitalized with a stress-induced heart attack.
An employee was transporting buckets of hot oil to oil storage using a cart when the cart hit a bump, causing the oil to spill on his foot. He was hospitalized with second-degree burns and a loss of skin.
An employee was brushing the inside of a cooker. The lid of another, nearby cooker came open; hot peanut oil and steam sprayed out and caused second-degree burns to the employee's arms, neck, and face.
An employee used a 6-foot step ladder to pull a box of sanitizers from a shelf that was approximately 8 feet above the floor. He worked from the 3rd step of the step ladder to place a box on the shelf. He fell from the ladder, hitting his head on equipment and the floor. He suffered contusions, cuts, and lacerations to his forehead and other areas of his head, requiring hospitalization.
On December 30, 2023, an employee was pulling a pallet into the back room when a forklift rounded the corner and ran over the employee's right foot. Three of the employee's toes were amputated.
An employee was unwrapping a pallet of empty buckets. The employee stepped backward and was struck by a powered industrial truck carrying a pallet of bucket lids, resulting in a left ankle fracture.
An employee was walking in the racking area to check parts when they were struck by an oncoming forklift. The front wheel ran over the employee's right leg, resulting in fractures to the leg and ankle.
An employee was exiting a trailer for it to be loaded when their right ankle was pinned between a piece of angle iron that was anchored to the floor and a long pallet being pushed by a powered industrial truck (PIT). The employee sustained an ankle fracture and was hospitalized.
A tow truck operator was operating his bed controls on the drivers side when another vehicle crashed into him. The employee sustained fractures to the right femur, hip, and left foot, as well as abrasions to the right knee and a laceration to the right wrist.
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