Amputations

Name: Amputations at WALMART DISTIBUTION CENTER
Start: 8/20/2015

1 amputation, 1 hospitalization · 2015085963 · 8/20/2015 · WALMART DISTIBUTION CENTER

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 1
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Toes(s), toenail(s)
Nature of injury: Amputations

Cause

Event: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
Source: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
Secondary source: Girders, beams, structural steel

Employer

Name: WALMART DISTIBUTION CENTER
Location: 100 WALTON WAY, SMYRNA, DELAWARE, 19977
NAICS: 452112
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was driving a forklift at the Walmart Distribution Center in Smyrna, Delaware. He dismounted the moving forklift, which drove toward a vertical I-beam. His left foot got caught between the I-beam and the forklift and his toes were crushed. All of his left-foot toes were surgically amputated.

Source

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