Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201101557 - Employee Fractures Leg Between Steel Tank

Accident Summary Nr: 201101557 -- Report ID: 0950623 -- Event Date: 05/18/2000
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
125725358	06/21/2000	2092	0	Eureka Fisheries Inc

Abstract: An employee, a laborer in the ice plant of a sea food processing plant, was driving a stand-up Raymond forklift truck when he suddenly realized that he was about to run into a steel tank. He took his foot off the power foot control which deenergized the lift truck. The employee's left leg was outside the operating position and became caught between the steel tank and the forklift. He sustained a fractured leg, for which he was hospitalized.

Keywords: FRACTURE, STEEL, CAUGHT BY, STORAGE TANK, CAUGHT BETWEEN, INDUSTRIAL TRUCK, TANK, LEG

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	125725358			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Miscelaneous food preparation occupations

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