Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries

Name: Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries at Southern States Material Handling, Inc.
Start: 3/7/2024

1 hospitalization · 2024032096 · 3/7/2024 · Southern States Material Handling, Inc.

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Trunk and other upper extremities
Nature of injury: Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries

Cause

Event: Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing
Source: Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered
Secondary source: Secondary source not applicable

Employer

Name: Southern States Material Handling, Inc.
Location: 6595 Pritchard Road, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 32219
NAICS: 811310
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on a man up order picker that required the steel platform to be fully extended to work underneath it, when the platform released and crushed them resulting in a punctured lung and fractures to their shoulder, vertebrae, and seven ribs.

Source

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