Fall, contact incident onboard water vehicle · Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Yusen Terminals LLC, Vessel: Orion, TERMINAL ISLAND, CALIFORNIA 90731
on — Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified, affecting the Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was adjusting a turnbuckle for a container on a vessel when the turnbuckle caught his glove. The container fell over, causing him to fall to a metal deck on a lower level and sustain a back injury.
Hospitalized Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified Cargo ship, freighter, passenger liner
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