Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Georgia Pacific Brewton Mill, 3224 HWY 31, BREWTON, ALABAMA 36427
on — Fractures, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
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