SWEETWATER, TEXAS—
Love's Travel Stop
Collision between a moving and standing vehicle, nonroadway · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Love's Travel Stop, Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc. 9418 North Interstate 20 Sweetwater Texas 79556, SWEETWATER, TEXAS 79556 on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was sitting in his car outside a shop. A tractor and trailer pulled out of the bay and turned, at which point the trailer struck the car on the driver's side. The employee's legs were caught between the door and the car, and both legs were broken.
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