Fractures

Name: Fractures at Ellwood Texas Forge Navasota
Start: 8/14/2019

1 hospitalization · 2019088379 · 8/14/2019 · Ellwood Texas Forge Navasota

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Lower leg(s)
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

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

Employer

Name: Ellwood Texas Forge Navasota
Location: 10908 CR 419, NAVASOTA, TEXAS, 77868
NAICS: 332111
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

Two employees were rigging up a conveyor to slide it out and lift it up with a forklift; one employee was on the far side of the conveyor and the other was operating the forklift. The tines on the forklift hit the first employee's lower left leg, breaking it.

Source

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