Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 139188.015 - Employee fractures hip and back in fall from pallet jack

Accident Summary Nr: 139188.015 -- Report ID: 0316700 -- Event Date: 09/08/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1553196.015	09/15/2021		493110	C & S Wholesale Grocers Inc.

Abstract: At 8:30 p.m. on September 8, 2021, an employee working as a production coordinator for a wholesale grocer was operating a a battery operated pallet jack in the pick area of the warehouse. The employee made a left turn, followed by an immediate right turn at which time she lost control of the PIV. The employee fell to the concrete floor striking the racking. The employee was hospitalized to treat a right pubic fracture, a left sacral fracture and an L3 fracture.

Keywords: Back, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Driving, Food Handling, Fracture, Hip, Industrial Truck, Lack of Work Procedures, Material Handling, Order-picker , PIV, Pallet Jack, Picking, Picking an order, Powered Industrial Vehicle, Sacroiliac, Spine, Storage Rack, Struck Against, Vertebra, Warehouse, Warehouse Aisle

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	1553196.015	20	F	Hospitalized injury		Production coordinators

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