Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Pine Cove Inc, 462 Sonrise Way, TOCCOA, GEORGIA 30577
on — Fractures , affecting the Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was participating in a skit in the dining hall and was supposed to run into the window as part of the skit. The window broke and the employee fell through the second-story window to the ground below. The employee sustained a fracture to their spinal canal.
Hospitalized Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified Other constructed surface
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