Fall on same level resulting in exposure or contact · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at AlaTrade Foods L.L.C., 695 West Henderson Road, BOAZ, ALABAMA 35957
on — Fractures , affecting the Toes(s), toenail(s).
Final narrative
An employee was travelling into the cooler in the shipping area while operating a pallet jack. He tripped over the forks of a parked jack and the pallet jack he was operating then ran over his right foot. The employee sustained fractured toes.
Hospitalized Toes(s), toenail(s) Other constructed surface
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