Fractures

Name: Fractures at Greater Omaha Packing Co., Inc.
Start: 5/24/2019

1 hospitalization · 2019055261 · 5/24/2019 · Greater Omaha Packing Co., Inc.

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
Source: Pallet jack-powered
Secondary source: Structural elements, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: Greater Omaha Packing Co., Inc.
Location: 3001 L Street, OMAHA, NEBRASKA, 68107
NAICS: 311612
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was operating a pallet jack and went to turn his pallet jack around when the jack slid on a piece of fat causing it to slide into a pillar that was holding a plastic roll holder. His left leg was caught between the plastic roll holder and the pallet jack resulting in a compound fracture to his leg.

Source

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