Skull fracture and intracranial injury

Name: Skull fracture and intracranial injury at Westby Cooperative Creamery
Start: 11/5/2018

1 hospitalization · 20181111386 · 11/5/2018 · Westby Cooperative Creamery

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Brain
Nature of injury: Skull fracture and intracranial injury

Cause

Event: Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area
Source: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

Employer

Name: Westby Cooperative Creamery
Location: 401 S Main Street, WESTBY, WISCONSIN, 54667
NAICS: 311513
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was struck by a forklift as it backed up. The employee fell backward and hit their head on the warehouse floor, suffering a small brain bleed, a fracture to the back of the skull, bruising of the left eye, and a small left cheek laceration.

Source

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