Other fall to lower level unspecified · Bruises, contusions
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at XPO LOGISTICS FREIGHT, 7649 Penn Drive, ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 18106
on — Bruises, contusions , affecting the Head unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was manually maneuvering a pallet onto its side for loading into a trailer door when he fell backward off the dock onto the cement surface, striking his head on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a contusion to the head.
Hospitalized Head unspecified Loading docks, dock plates
While installing a placard on a truck, an employee fell backward and hit his head on the concrete. He was hospitalized for possible bleeding on the brain.
An employee was unloading a trailer using a forklift. He left the forklift and removed a strap securing freight to the wall on a deck over other freight. One or more of the four beams running from one side of the trailer to the other failed, and the freight fell forward onto him. He suffered a broken fibula and tibia.
An employee unloading a crate attempted to turn the crate near the rear of a trailer so that he could get a pallet jack under the crate. A board broke off the crate and the employee fell out the rear of the trailer, landing on the ground and suffering a fractured pelvis that required hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was loading a trailer with freight when an unsecured axle tipped over and landed on the employee's right foot, breaking the big toe and lacerating three other toes.
An employee was retrieving a Christmas tree from a shelf using a ladder. He missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained injury to his head and wrist.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.
An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.
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