OSHA Injury Report: Prime Packing

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Employee walked from the Loading Dock room through the garage door and into an area that pallets are typically placed located off the end of production. Employee was not paying attention to forklift traffic and was looking away from traffic trying to get the attention of another employee that was up on a higher level.

What happened

Employee walked out of the loading dock room not observing the forklift traffic and stood in a spot drivers typically sit pallets. The path and timing of employees movement and subsequent standing in an area reserved for pallets coupled with the other forklift operators movement placed the employee in a blind spot to the forklift operator during the entierty of the time Employee walked through the garage door to the spot employee stopped at. The other forklift operator placed the pallet in the designated spot while doing so pushed employee forward with the pallet.

Injury or illness

Shoulder sprain

Object or substance involved

pallet

Summary line

Sprained shoulder pushed by a pallet that was being put into place by another forklift operator

Employee and industry

When (timing detail)

Source

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.