GARDNER, KANSAS—
Concrete Strategies LLC
Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Concrete Strategies LLC, 31700 W 107th St, GARDNER, KANSAS 66030 on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).
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Final narrative
An employee was being walked off the job site when he was involved in a physical altercation with two other workers and fell to the ground, fracturing his right tibia and fibula. He was hospitalized and had surgery.
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An employee was removing concrete forms and loading them onto a flatbed tractor trailer when his left index finger got caught in the chain rigging that was in use to move the forms. The load shifted and amputated his left index finger between the bottom of the finger nail and the top of the knuckle.
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