Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221420912

WAKEFERN FOOD CORPORATION

Event
Collision, Contusion, Operator, Pallet Jack, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Thigh, Warehouse, Warehouse Aisle
NAICS
445110
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345695373
Employer profile
WAKEFERN FOOD CORPORATION
Summary number
221420912
Report ID
0213400

Event description

Employee suffers contusion in pallet jack collision

Investigation abstract

At 10:45 p.m. on December 12, 2021, an employee was operating an electric pallet jack with tines forward in one warehouse aisle when a coworker was operating another pallet jack and making left turn from an adjacent aisle and the two jacks collided. The employee suffered a contusion on his right thigh and was treated without hospitalization.

Victim

  1. #1 Non-hospitalized injury Age 40 F

    Event type
    6

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