OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221436629

EAST COAST/WEST COAST LOGISTICS, LLC

COLTON, CA· 2021-08-27T00:00:00

Event: Broken, Broken Bone, Catch Point, Caught Between, Communication, Container, Containerized Cargo, Contusion, Conveyor, Conveyor Belt, Crushed, Distracted, Dock, Dock Worker, Engineering Controls, Fracture, Lack of Engineering Controls, Leg, Loading Dock, Machine Guarding, Machine operator, Metal container, Pinch Point, Pinched, Trailer, Unloading
NAICS: 493110
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #345536304
Employer profile: EAST COAST/WEST COAST LOGISTICS, LLC
Summary number: 221436629
Report ID: 0950633

Event description

Employee breaks leg when caught in conveyor belt during unlo

Investigation abstract

At 10:27 a.m. on August 27, 2021, an employee working as a laborer for a company safe to do so. The employee was transported to a regional hospital, where he was admitted to treat a broken leg. that performs shipping and receiving operations was unloading of a shipping container. The employee was working alongside several coworkers unloading the container at a loading dock with the use of an extendable conveyor belt. The employee worked directly for the employer. The crew was working in the store delivery department. The crew was off loading product from the back of a trailer at a dock door while the employee was pushing product along an extendable conveyor belt. The employee caught his leg in a pinch point created when a distracted coworker retracted the extendable conveyor without ensuring it was

Victim

#1 Hospitalized Age 27 M

Event type
2

Occupation code
889

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