Fall on same level due to slipping · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Sioux Chief Manufacturing, 14940 Thunderbird Road, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI 64147
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the lower leg(s).
Final narrative
An employee was walking to their car when they stepped off the sidewalk into mud, slipped and fell, resulting in a lower left leg injury.
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