Gordon Food Service Douglasville Distribution Center
Other fall to lower level unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Gordon Food Service Douglasville Distribution Center, 407 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA 31030
on — Fractures , affecting the Trunk and other upper extremities.
Final narrative
An employee was unloading frozen food product from a freezer truck. They slipped on the ramp from the trailer and fell to the ground below. The employee was hospitalized for a fractured right wrist and C7 vertebra.
Hospitalized Trunk and other upper extremities Trucks unspecified
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