Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at C. H. Guenther & Son LLC, 627 Big Stone Gap Rd., DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS 75137
on — Fractures , affecting the Ankle(s).
Final narrative
An employee was walking down a flight of stairs when he twisted his ankle on the last step, fracturing it.
Hospitalized Ankle(s) Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
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