Ceva Logistics, LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Apr 12, 2021: Employee driving forklift breaks leg when unable to stop

At 7:40 a.m. on April 12, 2021, an employee working as an equipment operator for a logistics company was driving a forklift. The employee was unable to get the forklift to stop causing her to have a collision. The employee was hospitalized to treat a broken leg.

Incident on Sep 23, 2013: Employee's ankle is struck by object and is fractured

On September 23, 2013, Employee #1, a material handler, was working at a distrib ution and warehousing facility of home improvement products. He started his work day at 7:00 a.m. and attended a morning start-up meeting. After the meeting, the supervisor informed him that he would be working with himself today and instruc ted him about obtaining a pallet jack. Employee #1 was paired up with a coworker to pick and process shower door orders. At approximately 7:50 a.m., Employee #1 was working with his partner and moving shower doors from a location and placin g them on a pallet. Between orders, the coworker left the area to retrieve cardb oard for another order and Employee #1 began to work on the next order. As he re moved one of the shower doors from the pick location, the balance of doors (a to tal of seven to eight doors) in the location fell forward. They struck his left ankle and fractured it. Employee #1 was transported to a medical center, where h e underwent surgical procedures for the fractured ankle and was then hospitalize d for one week.

Incident on Mar 22, 2013: Forklift driver injures foot between rack and forklift

On March 22, 2013, Employee #1, a 27-year-old male with Ceva Logistics Inc, was operating an order picker industrial truck he was operating made contact with a storage rack. Employee #1 had been driving an order picker industrial truck manu factured by Hyster Company, serial number D470N0-1816E, model number N35 ZR-16-5 , and had a shop designation number of 35. Employee #1 placed a box on the dash of the order picker truck and drove off. While going around a corner on the way to the storage location the box slipped onto the control stick causing the truck to jerk forward, which caused Employee #1 to momentarily lose his balance. As E mployee #1 lost balance, his foot extended beyond the frame of the vehicle as he was rounding a corner and the order picker made contact with a storage rack, we dging his foot between he frame of the vehicle and the corner of the rack. Emplo yee #1 sustained serious crushing injuries including fractures to the left foot and ankle and was hospitalized as a result of the event. Employee #1 was initial ly reported to have been a forklift driver but it was later revealed that he had not been certified to operate an industrial lift truck by the employer and that his job title was "General Labor." During the course of the investigation it wa s determined that he was most likely directed by a supervisor to take a small bo x back to a storage location. The Employer was a cargo shipping and receiving co mpany and the site was a dual employer scenario utilizing a temporary labor agen cy on site.