Fractures

Name: Fractures at XPO Logistics Freight
Start: 4/10/2021

1 hospitalization · 2021042991 · 4/10/2021 · XPO Logistics Freight

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
Source: Containers-nonpressurized, unspecified
Secondary source: Trailers

Employer

Name: XPO Logistics Freight
Location: 5289 Duff Drive, CINCINNATI, OHIO, 45246
NAICS: 484121
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was unloading a trailer using a forklift. He left the forklift and removed a strap securing freight to the wall on a deck over other freight. One or more of the four beams running from one side of the trailer to the other failed, and the freight fell forward onto him. He suffered a broken fibula and tibia.

Source

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