OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #745174
EVERGREEN GENE'S, INC.
GLEN BURNIE, MD·
Event description
Employee's hip fractured when caught between two vehicles
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 and the assistant manager were crossing the company driveway between two parked vehicles to open for the day's business. Neither worker was aware th at a coworker was in the first truck preparing to start the engine. As the pair reached the midpoint of the driveway, the truck lurched backward, pinning Employ ee #1 against the head of the next vehicle, an old Cadillac sedan converted into a flower cart, and knocking the assistant manager out of the way. Employee #1 w as transported to the Shock Trauma Unit at the University of Maryland Hospital i n Baltimore, where she was treated for a fractured hip and then released to the general hospital.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 26 F
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 29
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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