Crushing injuries

Name: Crushing injuries at Louisiana Pepper Exchange
Start: 6/10/2020

1 hospitalization · 2020065398 · 6/10/2020 · Louisiana Pepper Exchange

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Hand(s), unspecified
Nature of injury: Crushing injuries

Cause

Event: Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident
Source: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
Secondary source: Trailers

Employer

Name: Louisiana Pepper Exchange
Location: 1755 Tchoupitoulas St, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, 70130
NAICS: 424490
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was using a forklift to move pallets at a warehouse. As he was backing up the forklift, his hand went outside the forklift and was crushed between the forklift and an adjacent trailer. He was hospitalized.

Source

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