Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at HEB, 29388 IH 10 West, BOERNE, TEXAS 78006
on — Fractures , affecting the Toes(s), toenail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was walking backward while operating a walk-behind pallet jack when he backed into a pallet of product on the floor and fell backward onto the pallet. The pallet jack rolled onto his foot and crushed and fractured two of his toes.
Hospitalized Toes(s), toenail(s) Pallet jack riding
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