An Amazon Employee in Dallas TX Suffers a Broken Hip
Pallet injuries are common in the warehouses of big box stores Amazon, Walmart, Lowe’s, and Home Depot, none of which have likely subscribed to Texas workers’ comp insurance. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently updated the ongoing serious injury report to add those that occurred in October 2021. The report includes details of a pallet-related injury that happened at Amazon Fulfillment Center FTW 1 in Dallas, Texas.
The NAICS Code for Amazon Fulfillment Center FTW is 493110 the General Warehousing and Storage industry. The address where the alleged serious Texas workplace accident occurred is 33333 LBJ Freeway, Dallas TX 75241. The injury in which an employee was seriously injured occurred on October 16, 2021, and is in the “fall on the same level due to tripping over an object” work injury event category.
An Employee Suffers an Amazon Warehouse Injury in Dallas, Texas
- An employee had been working near a stack of pallets when his shoelace got caught in a strap hook on the bottom pallet. The employee suffered a serious fall that resulted in a broken hip.
There was no inspection follow-up to this injury, though at least one other pallet-related injury that occurred in Texas in October 2021 was followed up with an inspection and citations.
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