Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 135753.015 - Employee fractures skull, brain bleeds when ejected from PIV

Accident Summary Nr: 135753.015 -- Report ID: 0625700 -- Event Date: 04/30/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1528977.015	05/04/2021		561311	Wagner Logistics

Abstract: At 4:00 p.m. on April 30, 2021, an employee working as an equipment operator for a logistics company was operating a motorized pallet jack. The employee was tasked with relocating pallets within a factory. The employee lost consciousness, releasing the throttle and causing the motorized pallet jack to abruptly stop. The employee was ejected and fell onto the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized to treat a fractured skull and brain bleed from impact with the floor.

Keywords: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Brain, Brain Bleed, Concrete Floor, Ejected, Engineering Controls, Equipment Operator, Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fracture, Freight, Head, Industrial Truck, Inexperience, Insufficient Supervision, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Loss of consciousness, Lost Control, Lost consciousness, Material Handling, Motor Vehicle, Pallet, Pallet Jack, Palletized Cargo, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Skull, Supervision, Traumatic Brain Injury, Walking Surface, Work Surface

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1528977.015	43	M	Hospitalized injury		Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators

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