Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221397367

C & S WHOLESALE GROCERS, INC.

Event
Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Collision, Driving, Fracture, Horn, Industrial Truck, Inexperience, Intersection, Leg, Material Handling, Motor Vehicle, PIV, Pallet Jack, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Speeding, Struck By, Warehouse, Warehouse Aisle
NAICS
424410
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#345556609
Employer profile
C & S WHOLESALE GROCERS, INC.
Summary number
221397367
Report ID
0950624

Event description

Employee fractures leg when PIV collides with another PIV

Investigation abstract

At 12:45 p.m. on September 13, 2021, an employee, a powered industrial vehicle The employee was hospitalized and required surgery. (PIV) operator for a grocery wholesaler, was operating a Raymond Model 4810 Pallet Jack (Serial Number 841-19-50758). The employee reported slowing down and sounding the horn while approaching an intersection. He stated that at the same time, a coworker operating another PIV entered the intersection at high speed, making a right turn without sounding the horn. The employee claimed that the coworker yelled upon realizing a collision was imminent. In a separate statement, the coworker claimed the employee failed to slow down or sound the horn. The two PIVs collided, and the employee sustained a fractured right leg.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 20 M

    Event type
    1
    Occupation code
    856

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