Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Cuts, lacerations
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Fidelity Investments, 245 Summer Street, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02210
on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
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