Fractures

Name: Fractures at American Blanching Company
Start: 10/15/2018

1 hospitalization · 20181010612 · 10/15/2018 · American Blanching Company

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 falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Bags, sacks
Secondary source: Bags, sacks

Employer

Name: American Blanching Company
Location: 155 Rip Wiley Road, FITZGERALD, GEORGIA, 31750
NAICS: 311911
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was manually stuffing a tote liner inside the torn opening of a sack full of peanuts that was positioned on a pallet on the ground when another sack stacked on top of the sack the employee was stuffing fell on and pinned him against the ground. He sustained a right ankle fracture and lumbar (L5) vertebrae fracture.

Source

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