ROLLA, KANSAS—
Seaboard Foods
Other fall to lower level, unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Seaboard Foods, 02755 Blvd 2, ROLLA, KANSAS 67954 on — Fractures, affecting the wrist(s).
Final narrative
An employee was inside a livestock trailer that had just been cleaned. He was inspecting the trailer when someone called his name. He turned around, slipped, and fell out of the trailer. The employee landed on the concrete floor and sustained a broken wrist requiring surgery.
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An employee slipped and fell onto a wet concrete floor, resulting in an open fracture to two bones in her left wrist.
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