PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA·2015-12-17

Carnegie Mellon University

Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. · Fractures

At a glance

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Carnegie Mellon University, 10 40th Street, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15213 on 2015-12-17, Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.

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Final narrative

An employee was operating a manual hydraulic pallet jack to elevate and relocate a storage cabinet. A plastic storage bin fell from the cabinet and struck the employee breaking the left leg.

Hospitalized Leg(s), unspecified Containers-nonpressurized, n.e.c.

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