Boarding, alighting-excluding slip, trip, fall-single episode · Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Kinsley Construction Incorporated, 140 Copenhaffer Road, YORK, PENNSYLVANIA 17404
on — Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c., affecting the knee(s) and leg(s).
Final narrative
An employee was unloading tools. As they stepped off a lift gate of a box truck to the trailer, their left knee buckled, causing the right knee to buckle as well. The employee sustained a right knee fracture and a ruptured quadriceps tendon on the left and right leg.
HospitalizedKnee(s) and leg(s)Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
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