Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at DFA Dairy Brands Fluid, LLC, 1126 Kilburn Avenue, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS 61101
on — Fractures , affecting the Head and extremities.
Final narrative
A maintenance employee was working to repair the dry warehouse dock door that would not close. The employee fell from the elevated working surface to the ground and sustained fractures to their skull and left tibia.
Hospitalized Head and extremities Source, secondary source unspecified
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