Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Texas Landfill Management LLC, 12200 Carl Road, BUDA, TEXAS 78610
on — Fractures, affecting the neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders.
Final narrative
An employee was helping to move game animals when one of them charged the employee, collided with him, and knocked him to the ground. He sustained a fractured cervical vertebrae, sprained left hand, and a cut to the head that required stitches.
HospitalizedNeck, except internal location of diseases or disordersMammals, unspecified
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