Trip over an object without fall · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Ohio Cat, 25970 North Dixie Highway , PERRYSBURG, OHIO 43551
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was hospitalized after tripping over a mobile jack stand not in use in the tool room. The employee sustained a leg injury.
HospitalizedLeg(s), unspecifiedBodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
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