Struck bump, hole, or rough terrain in road surface · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at American Roadway Logistics, 39250 Congress Parkway, RICHFIELD, OHIO 44286
on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).
Final narrative
An employee, working as a coner, which is the person who sits on the platform crate/grate behind the road line marking paint truck and picks up and places traffic cones, was picking up cones from the right side of the crate/grate when the truck hit a bump causing it to bounce up and down which caused the employee's right leg to get stuck between the ground and the vehicle breaking the tibia/fibula.
HospitalizedLower leg(s)Road linemarking and striping machinery
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