Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk

Name: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk at American Blanching Company
Start: 1/13/2021

1 hospitalization · 2021010336 · 1/13/2021 · American Blanching Company

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders
Nature of injury: Internal injuries to organs and blood vessels of the trunk

Cause

Event: Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet
Source: Skids, pallets
Secondary source: Floor, n.e.c.

Employer

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

Narrative

An employee was removing plastic elevator buckets from the tops of pallets of empty tote bags. As the employee came down from the pallets (42 inches off the floor), his foot caught the edge of a pallet and he fell to the concrete floor on his left side, with a bucket under him. The employee sustained a lacerated kidney and was hospitalized.

Source

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