Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221432727

US FOODS, INC.

Event
Brain Bleed, Broken Bone, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fracture, Head, Order-picker, Picking an order, Skull, Vertebra
NAICS
424410
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345755532
Employer profile
US FOODS, INC.
Summary number
221432727
Report ID
0420600

Event description

Employee incurs multiple injuries in fall from order picker

Investigation abstract

At 6:40 p.m. on January 25, 2022, an employee was working in the freezer, picking orders in the guided aisle using an order picker. The employee reached the exit-entrance of aisle 40 and noticed a case about to fall from a pallet. The employee unbuckled his safety harness and reached to secure the case and mis-stepped from the lift platform and fell seven feet to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized to treat a head Injury, broken vertebrate, brain bleeding, and a fractured skull.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 35 M

    Event type
    5
    Occupation code
    327

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