Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at ACCELERATED COURIER, INC., 105 Southfield Parkway, FOREST PARK, GEORGIA 30297
on — Fractures , affecting the Rib(s), oblique area.
Final narrative
Employees were loading and unloading a trailer. The injured worker was stacking boxes that came loose from a pallet on the trailer onto an empty one just outside the trailer entrance. Another pallet of freight that contained boxes of merchandise fell on top of him. The employee sustained five broken ribs and a laceration above the eye.
Hospitalized Rib(s), oblique area Boxes, crates, cartons
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