Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201795986 - Employee Suffers Foot Fracture

Accident Summary Nr: 201795986 -- Report ID: 0950644 -- Event Date: 04/25/2002
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
301327623	05/10/2002	9512	924120	County Of Los Angeles-Dept Of Park & Recs

Abstract: On April 25, 2002, Employee #1 and a coworker were moving a metal baseball court-base weighing about 500 pounds from inside the recreational room to the bed of a pick-up truck parked outside. Employee #1 stated that he was neither provided with nor wearing steel toe shoes at the time of the accident time and that he was not instructed regarding the use of steel toe shoes while handling heavy loads. Employee #1 was wearing his regular work shoes and his coworker was wearing tennis shoes. The load fell and crushed the big toe on Employee #1's left foot. Employee #1 suffered a crushing injury to his big toe and fractured left foot. Employee #1 was hospitalized.

Keywords: FRACTURE, CRUSHED, TOE, FALLING OBJECT, UNTRAINED, SAFETY SHOE, FOOT

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	301327623			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Supervisors, material moving equipment operators

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