Man injured in loading dock accident

• February
• 29

8:13 am Mack trucks

AFTER A LOADING DOCK ACCIDENT at Elberta Crate and Box Factory in Bainbridge on Thursday afternoon, Bainbridge Public Safety officers and medical first responders help emergency medical personnel put the injured man, Pierre Paul, up onto a stretcher and into an ambulance.

An employee at the Elberta Crate and Box factory had his leg partially amputated in a loading dock accident Thursday afternoon, according to Bainbridge Public Safety.

The injured man, identified as Pierre Paul, had the foot and ankle of one of his legs severed in the accident, which occurred shortly before 3:30 p.m. Thursday at the factory’s rear loading docks off Dothan Road in Bainbridge, Cpl. Jon Harrison of BPS said.

Paul was standing on the rear of a Mack truck being driven by loading dock supervisor Jeff Weaver, who was backing up to a flatbed trailer filled with wooden sticks used in box-making, according to Cpl. Harrison.

Paul was preparing to connecting the truck to the trailer when the truck rolled back and his foot, which was positioned in the truck’s fifth wheel coupling, was caught between the truck and trailer, Harrison said.

Emergency Medical Service personnel treated Paul at the scene and then took him to Memorial Hospital. Harrison said he understood an emergency medical helicopter had been requested to take Paul to a larger hospital.