DEER PARK, TEXAS·
UPS Industrial Services, LLC
Struck by falling object unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at UPS Industrial Services, LLC, 45900 Hwy 225, DEER PARK, TEXAS 77536 on , Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).
Final narrative
An employee of UPS Industrial Services, LLC, was helping offload 40-foot sections of 8-inch pipe (weighing 3,000 pounds each) from a forklift in the laydown yard. As he reached to remove a piece of dunnage from the forklift tines, a pipe began to roll toward him from the back of the forklift mast toward the front. The pipe then fell from the forklift forks, catching his left and right legs against another pipe on the ground. He suffered fractures to both lower legs and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
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