Fractures

Name: Fractures at BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.
Start: 4/9/2015

1 hospitalization · 2015041879 · 4/9/2015 · BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Thigh(s)
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Boxes, crates, cartons
Secondary source: Skids, pallets

Employer

Name: BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc.
Location: 8085 Cooper Creek Blvd, UNIVERSITY PARK, FLORIDA, 34201
NAICS: 452910
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was opening the back of a trailer during product unloading when boxes from a pallet that shifted during transport fell on him. The employee sustained a fractured femur and a laceration to the head. The employee was subsequently hospitalized.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown