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Fractures

1 hospitalization · 2025076837 · 7/15/2025 · UPS Industrial Services, LLC

Severity

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

Cause

Event
Struck by falling object unspecified
Source
Pipes, ducts, tubing unspecified
Secondary source
Forklift, order picker, platform truck powered

Employer

Name
UPS Industrial Services, LLC
Location
45900 Hwy 225, DEER PARK, TEXAS, 77536
NAICS
332710
Jurisdiction
1

Narrative

An employee of UPS Industrial Services, LLC, was helping offload 40-foot sections of 8-inch pipe (weighing 3,000 pounds each) from a forklift in the laydown yard. As he reached to remove a piece of dunnage from the forklift tines, a pipe began to roll toward him from the back of the forklift mast toward the front. The pipe then fell from the forklift forks, catching his left and right legs against another pipe on the ground. He suffered fractures to both lower legs and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Source

Authoritative
OSHA Severe Injury Reports
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