Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2016-09-14 | Goddard | Kansas | DILLONS DISTRIBUTION CENTER | Lower leg(s) | Nonroadway incident involving motorized land vehicle |
An employee suffered a compound fracture to the lower right leg while training on a powered pallet jack. | |||||
2015-05-13 | Goddard | Kansas | DILLONS DISTRIBUTION CENTER | Toes(s), toenail(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
A forklift operator backed up and struck a pallet jack and load directly behind with the forks of the truck, pinching the injured employee's left big toe and causing a 1/2-inch toe amputation. | |||||
2015-01-16 | Goddard | Kansas | NOWAK CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. |
Worker was in a trench and was injured when an operator moved the trench box. The spreader bar on the trench box struck the worker in the back, cracking his vertebra. The worker was hospitalized one night. |