Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at GR Operations LLC, 1000 Village Road, GRANBY, COLORADO 80446
on — Fractures , affecting the Leg(s) unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was skiing downhill when he went airborne and landed on the ground, fracturing his right leg.
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