Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170897326 - Employee'S Back Fractured When Struck By Falling Bale

Accident Summary Nr: 170897326 -- Report ID: 0950644 -- Event Date: 10/30/1999
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
120259098	11/01/1999	0762	0	Woodland Farms, Inc

Abstract: At approximately 8:30 a.m. on October 30, 1999, Employee #1, of Woodland Farms Inc., was in the driver's seat of a tractor, model MF-40, loading bales of feathers onto a truck when a bale fell 14 ft from the raised tractor scoop and struck him on the back. Employee #1 suffered one or more fractured vertebrae and was transported to the hospital, where he was treated and released after only four hours. He has since returned to work on modified duty, but he cannot bend his back in a normal way. The tractor was not equipped with ROPS or any other form of overhead protection.

Keywords: loading, fracture, agriculture, work rules, rops, overhead guard, back, struck by, falling object, vertebra

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	120259098			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Managers, farms, except horticultural

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