PORT WENTWORTH, GEORGIA—2018-09-24

IKEA Distribution Services, Inc.

Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk

Final narrative

An employee was operating narrow aisle equipment to place a wooden pallet with plastic-wrapped product in the lower level of an aisle. He was attempting to move the equipment forward when the reverse handle was engaged. The movement caused him to be pinned under the second level cross beams and the narrow aisle equipment, fracturing his right kneecap, bruising ribs, lacerating his spleen, and puncturing a lung.

Hospitalized Multiple trunk locations Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

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