Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Columbia Sussex Corporation, 2 Forbes Road, WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS 01801
on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
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