OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221391881

C & S WHOLESALE GROCERS INC.

YORK, PA· 2021-09-08T00:00:00

Event: Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Driving, Food Handling, Fracture, Hip, Industrial Truck, Lack of Work Procedures, Material Handling, Order-picker, PIV, Pallet Jack, Picking, Picking an order, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Sacroiliac, Spine, Storage Rack, Struck Against, Vertebra, Warehouse, Warehouse Aisle
NAICS: 493110
Inspection type: Referral
Activity number: #345531966
Employer profile: C & S WHOLESALE GROCERS INC.
Summary number: 221391881
Report ID: 0316700

Event description

Employee fractures hip and back in fall from pallet jack

Investigation abstract

At 8:30 p.m. on September 8, 2021, an employee working as a production coordinator for a wholesale grocer was operating a a battery operated pallet jack in the pick area of the warehouse. The employee made a left turn, followed by an immediate right turn at which time she lost control of the PIV. The employee fell to the concrete floor striking the racking. The employee was hospitalized to treat a right pubic fracture, a left sacral fracture and an L3 fracture.

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 20 F

Event type
6

Occupation code
363

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