Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at R & L Carriers Shared Services, LLC, 10850 W. 164th St., OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS 66221
on — Fractures , affecting the Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was using a pallet jack to unload freight on a residential street. As he maneuvered the palletized freight to the trailer's liftgate, the pallet jack slid and made him lose his balance. The employee fell approximately 4 feet from the liftgate to the asphalt pavement below and sustained broken bones in his back.
Hospitalized Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified Gates, hatches vehicle and machine cargo
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