105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI—

Walsh & Associates, Inc.

Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c. · Fractures

Final narrative

An employee was unwrapping a pallet of four drums to prepare an outbound shipment. The four drums were secured together and to the pallet with stretch wrap. After cutting away the wrap with a utility knife, the employee pulled on the wrap to free it from the pallet and drums. He had also staged his forklift next to the drum pallet. The forklift utilizes an implement known as a "drum picker," which would be used to lift individual drums from the full pallet to fill the outbound load/order. While he was manually pulling the cut stretch wrap from the drums/pallet, he lost his grip on the stretch wrap and fell backward into the drum picker implement, striking his upper torso/back. He was hospitalized for a fractured C3 vertebra.

Hospitalized Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

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