Fractures

Name: Fractures at Koch Foods
Start: 10/7/2015

1 hospitalization · 2015107460 · 10/7/2015 · Koch Foods

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Battery-vehicle
Secondary source: Pallet jack-powered

Employer

Name: Koch Foods
Location: 921 South Main Street, FOREST, MISSISSIPPI, 39074
NAICS: 311615
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

Maintenance employees were using a forklift to lift a pallet jack to check the wheels. While the pallet jack was being lifted, the battery fell out and struck one of the employee's in the right leg fracturing it.

Source

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