Pedestrian struck by vehicle on side of road, unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Corporate Green, LLC, 1011 Government Street, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA 70802
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was pulling and spraying weeds in the median of a road. A car ran off the road and struck the employee breaking his left leg.
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