Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Circle K, 1203 Higdon Ferry Road, HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS 71913
on — Fractures , affecting the Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was carrying a grocery tote around a corner when the tote hit the wall or the counter causing the employee to fall backward to the floor and sustain fractured vertebrae.
Hospitalized Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified Other constructed surface
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