Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Republic Services of Pennsylvania, LLC, 308 Monterey Place, NEWTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 18940
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee injured their hand while riding on the back of a garbage truck, resulting in hospitalization.
HospitalizedHand(s), unspecifiedGarbage, recycling, or refuse truck
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