OSHA Injury Report: Corrugated Packaging : Dayton (V)

At a glance

Where did this happen?

What was the outcome?

Before the incident

On the above date time said employee was working in building 83 on a USPS push project packing boxes and placing them onto pallets when the employee needed a new pallet they proceeded to manually grab a blue pallet off of a pallet stack When said employee grabbed the bluechip pallet and moved it onto the floor they stated they felt a sharp pain in their lower back Employee thought nothing of it and returned to work while working the employee continued to feel a significant amount of lower back pain This incident was then brought to the attention of the site safety lead at which time the site safety lead reached out to TSS Travelers to start a worker comp case with a Spanish interpreter Employee has spoken to [REDACTED] as well as Care Coordinator [REDACTED] from Travelers Insurance the employee has agreed to give his back injury 48 hours to assess the severity Employee also agrees to follow [REDACTED] medical recommendation to ice his lower back every 4 hours and to sleep on his side w

What happened

On the above date time said employee was working in building 83 on a USPS push project packing boxes and placing them onto pallets when the employee needed a new pallet they proceeded to manually grab a blue pallet off of a pallet stack When said employee grabbed the bluechip pallet and moved it onto the floor they stated they felt a sharp pain in their lower back Employee thought nothing of it and returned to work while working the employee continued to feel a significant amount of lower back pain This incident was then brought to the attention of the site safety lead at which time the site safety lead reached out to TSS Travelers to start a worker comp case with a Spanish interpreter Employee has spoken to [REDACTED] as well as Care Coordinator [REDACTED] from Travelers Insurance the employee has agreed to give his back injury 48 hours to assess the severity Employee also agrees to follow [REDACTED] medical recommendation to ice his lower back every 4 hours and to sleep on his side w

Injury or illness

Strain tendons or muscles Back Lower Back

Object or substance involved

Improper ergonomic movement specifically bluechip pallet that weighs 62 lbs

Summary line

On the above date time said employee was working in building 83 on a USPS push project packing boxes and placing them onto pallets when the employee needed a new pallet they proceeded to manually grab a blue pallet off of a pallet stack When said employee

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.