Boarding, alighting-excluding slip, trip, fall-single episode · Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at New Jersey Natural Gas, 1415 Wyckoff Road, WALL TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY 07719
on — Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was tying down a tractor on a flatbed trailer with tie down chains. He then stepped back off the trailer to the ground, and felt pain in his left hip. The employee sustained a torn hip flexor.
HospitalizedHip(s)Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
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