Slip, trip, stumble while stepping between levels · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at KUBOTA MANUFACTURING OF AMERICA CORPORATION, 2715 RAMSEY ROAD, GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA 30501
on — Fractures , affecting the Trunk and other lower extremities.
Final narrative
An employee tripped while stepping up onto a curb from a parking lot. She fell to the concrete sidewalk and suffered fractures to the right femoral neck and two right-side ribs.
Hospitalized Trunk and other lower extremities Curbs
An employee was walking through a parking garage. She tripped over a curb and fell forward onto her right knee, then her left knee, both hands, and her face. She suffered an injury to the left knee that required surgery, as well as scrapes on the chin and both palms and soreness in the left wrist.
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