Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221421183

MEDLINE INDUSTRIES INC.

Event
Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Caught Between, Collision, Crushed, Foot, Forklift, Forks, Fracture, Laceration, Pallet Jack, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Toe, Truck, Warehouse, Warehouse Aisle
NAICS
561990
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345688642
Employer profile
MEDLINE INDUSTRIES INC.
Summary number
221421183
Report ID
0420600

Event description

Employee fractures foot in forklift collision

Investigation abstract

At 9:28 p.m. on December 9, 2021, an employee was operating a reach truck in a warehouse aisle traveling closely behind a coworker who was operating a powered pallet jack. The coworker on the jack turned into an aisle and stopped. The employee on the reach truck also turned into the same aisle and ran into the forks of the jack. As the trucks collided, the employee's leg came out of the operator's compartment and was crushed between the truck and pallet jack. The employee was hospitalized to treat a fracture of his left foot and lacerations to his toes.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 31 M

    Event type
    2
    Occupation code
    859

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