Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Waterson Terminal Services, LLC, 35 Terminal Road, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND 02905
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
On November 25, 2020, an employee was driving a used passenger vehicle onto a roll-on/roll-off cargo ship. The vehicle's accelerator got stuck and it crashed into a pole within the ship. The employee suffered a leg injury that required hospitalization and surgery.
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