HUTCHINSON, KANSAS·
Scrap Management Industries
Struck by other falling object n.e.c. · Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Scrap Management Industries, 700 S. Main St., HUTCHINSON, KANSAS 67501 on , Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels, affecting the multiple internal chest locations.
Final narrative
An employee drove a truck with a roll-off container into the yard. They got out of the truck and released the safety chain on the roll-off container in order to unload it, but ammunition containers located inside the roll-off container had shifted during transit. When the employee undid the safety chain, a pallet of ammunition containers fell out of the roll-off container and crushed the employee, resulting in several broken ribs, a broken arm and clavicle, and a punctured lung.
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