Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Progress Rail Cleveland Track, 6600 Bessemer Avenue, CLEVELAND, OHIO 44127
on — Fractures , affecting the Rib(s), oblique area.
Final narrative
The injured employee was helping a co-worker pull wire through a conduit. The wire broke and the employee fell back and struck his right side against a tensioning coupler that was on the wall. The employee was hospitalized with two fractured ribs.
Hospitalized Rib(s), oblique area Other constructed surface
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