Fractures

Name: Fractures at Columbia Recycling Corp
Start: 1/26/2017

1 hospitalization · 2017010837 · 1/26/2017 · Columbia Recycling Corp

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Multiple body parts, n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
Source: Bundles, bales
Secondary source: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

Employer

Name: Columbia Recycling Corp
Location: 1001 Chattanooga Ave., DALTON, GEORGIA, 30721
NAICS: 423930
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was on a forklift moving bales of carpet. As the employee was moving the bales, the carpet in the back row shifted, causing the bales in the front to fall. The employee jumped off the forklift and as he was running a bale hit him from behind. The employee sustained a fractured right leg, a fractured left fibula, a fractured L3 vertebra, and foreign bodies in left ankle.

Source

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