Nonroadway collision with other vehicle(s) moving and standing vehicle · Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Covanta Delaware Valley, L.P., 10 Highland Avenue, CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA 19013
on — Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss, affecting the Thigh(s).
Final narrative
An employee was backing up a skid steer from a fuel tank after refueling and struck a parked excavator, resulting in an avulsion injury to their upper right leg.
Hospitalized Thigh(s) Skid-steer loaders, mini loaders
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