Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Lineage Logistics, 5200 Gold Spike Dr., FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76106
on — Fractures , affecting the Leg(s) unspecified.
Final narrative
Employees were conducting inventory in the rail room. A forklift operator had moved four pallets of boxes into a storage location (bulk stacking) and pulled away. The injured employee entered this location to perform cycle counting/inventory and the stack of pallets fell forward, landing on the employee's right leg and back. The employee was hospitalized for a compound fracture to his right leg that required surgery.
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