OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #821330
W. BELL & COMPANY
SAVAGE, MD·
Event description
Employee's ankles injured between wood pallets
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was checking merchandise when she observed an approaching fork truck . To avoid the truck, she stepped between two wood pallets; however, as the fork truck turned the corner, one of its outriggers caught the edge of a wood pallet , which pinched her ankles. Employee #1 sustained contusions to the ankles. She had been performing regular job duties and had been employed at the facility for seven years.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 28 F
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 11
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 23
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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