Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at LCL Staffing, 400 Intermodol Pkwy, FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76177
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee sustained a foot injury while operating a stand-up reach tractor.
HospitalizedFoot (feet), unspecifiedForklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
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