Other fall to lower level unspecified · Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at BLACKSTONE CONSTRUCTION LLC., GPS_Coordinates: 35.3472856, -93.3306844 on I-40, LONDON, ARKANSAS 72847
on — Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries, affecting the Trunk and other upper extremities.
Final narrative
An employee was loading a mill machine onto a flatbed trailer. The machine went into crab-walk mode and walked sideways off the trailer. The employee jumped from the operator's platform of the machine to the deck of the trailer. He suffered a broken right arm, five broken ribs, a bruised lung, and lacerations to the kidney and spleen.
Hospitalized Trunk and other upper extremities Milling machines, cold planers, and road profilers
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