Cuts, lacerations

Name: Cuts, lacerations at YRC Freight
Start: 8/8/2016

1 hospitalization · 2016087371 · 8/8/2016 · YRC Freight

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Head, unspecified
Nature of injury: Cuts, lacerations

Cause

Event: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: YRC Freight
Location: 1275 OH Ave, COPLEY, OHIO, 44321
NAICS: 484230
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was stripping/unloading a trailer. There was a deck bar in the trailer towards the top of the vertical tracks. The employee was trying to remove the bar, but it was not coming loose. He then walked under the deck bar towards the front of the trailer and it released striking him on the top of his head, causing a laceration to the top left side of his head.

Source

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