Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at PTR Bailer & Compactor Company, 8301 Industrial Blvd, BREINIGSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA 18031
on — Fractures , affecting the Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee had just driven a forklift onto a trailer and was stepping down from the forklift cab onto the trailer bed. He stepped onto a chain/buckle system (used to secure the forklift to the trailer bed during travel) and fell from the deck. He suffered a head laceration and two broken vertebrae and was hospitalized.
Hospitalized Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified Vehicle trailers, trailing units
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