BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA—
Clark Equipment Company
Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Clark Equipment Company, 521 South Twenty-Second Street, BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA 58504 on — Fractures, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was moving a skid steer bucket when the bucket slipped off the hook and crushed his foot, resulting in a broken left foot.
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An employee was setting a skid steer bucket into a fixture. The bucket fell on his left foot, breaking the fourth metatarsal.
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