EMPORIA, KANSAS—
Cargill
Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Cargill, 841 Graphics Arts Road, EMPORIA, KANSAS 66801 on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was operating a stand-on forklift and was approaching the computer on the discharge line when her leg was pinned between the forklift and the discharge line and fractured.
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