Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221404015

SUNSTATE EQUIPMENT

Event
Ankle, Falling Object, Fracture, Leg, Material Handling, Shoring, Steel Plate, Struck By
NAICS
532490
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345594667
Employer profile
SUNSTATE EQUIPMENT
Summary number
221404015
Report ID
0626700

Event description

Employee fractures ankle when struck by falling trench box w

Investigation abstract

At 11:30 a.m. on October 14, 2021, an employee was on a loading trench, shoring plates onto a truck bed. A trench shoring plate slipped off a forklift, striking the back of the employee's leg. The employee was hospitalized for treatment of a fractured ankle.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 44 M

    Event type
    1
    Occupation code
    806

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