Climbing or stepping up or down-single episode · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at East Penn Manufacturing, 50 West jefferson St, TOPTON, PENNSYLVANIA 19562
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee suffered a leg injury while climbing into a jockey truck. The employee was hospitalized.
HospitalizedLeg(s), unspecifiedBodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
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