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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI—

BUSKE LOGISTICS

Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified · Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk

Final narrative

A temporary employee and three to four additional temporary and permanent employees were attempting to down-stack leaning pallets of product (canned and bottled beverages) from a stack of three loaded pallets. The stack was approximately 15-20 feet high. The pallets fell, for an unknown reason, and the temporary employee was pinned under product and pallets against the wall. He suffered a broken femur and fibula, broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a possible lacerated spleen. He was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders Skids, pallets

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