Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Name: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Weather Shield Mfg., Inc.
Start: 5/21/2021

1 hospitalization · 2021054170 · 5/21/2021 · Weather Shield Mfg., Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
Nature of injury: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Cause

Event: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
Source: Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
Secondary source: Scaffolds-staging, unspecified

Employer

Name: Weather Shield Mfg., Inc.
Location: 642 South Whelen Avenue, MEDFORD, WISCONSIN, 54451
NAICS: 321911
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

At about 10:25 a.m. on May 21, 2021, an employee was moving stored pedestal fans from an overhead balcony onto an adjacent elevated forklift platform. As the employee stepped off the balcony and onto the forklift platform, the platform became unstable and tipped off the forks. The employee fell to the concrete floor about 10 feet below, suffering a back/spine injury. The employee was hospitalized.

Source

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