Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Wiregrass Rehabilitation Center, Inc., 795 Ross Clark Circle, DOTHAN, ALABAMA 36303
on — Fractures, affecting the thigh(s).
Final narrative
An employee was pulling wire out of a storage tube. The employee slipped on the wire and fell to the concrete floor, suffering a broken right femoral head.
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An employee was cleaning spilled glue from a concrete floor. He mopped a thin layer of water over small areas of the hardened glue to help thin it. A few minutes later, he slipped on the floor and fell. He landed on a tape measure clipped to his right hip and suffered a femoral neck fracture that required surgery.
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