Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Valley Prestressed Products, Inc, 1520 Calhoun Road, EAGLE LAKE, TEXAS 77434
on — Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries, affecting the Ankle(s) and leg(s) n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was operating cementing equipment loaded with cement when the equipment starting tilting over during a right turn. When the injured employee felt it tilting over, he jumped from the equipment to the ground. The equipment then fell on him, crushing both of his legs from the tibia to the ankle.
Hospitalized Ankle(s) and leg(s) n.e.c. Construction, logging, and mining machinery unspecified
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