Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Capital Fence Co., Inc. , 68 N Ellicott Creek Road, AMHERST, NEW YORK 14228
on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).
Final narrative
Four employees were moving a large galvanized steel gate from inside the shop to the outside. One employee went and moved a cart with an auger out of the way. The cart had been sitting on a 1-foot-wide by 6-feet-long piece of chain link mesh, which became elevated off the ground after the cart was moved. The employee tripped over the piece of chain link mesh, falling and breaking the fibula and tibia bones in his leg.
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