Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Eaton Office Supply Co Inc, 180 John Glenn Drive, AMHERST, NEW YORK 14228
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
While walking across a warehouse, an employee tripped over a staged pallet and fell to the concrete floor. The employee suffered a leg injury.
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