Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at A.A. Pittman and Sons Concrete Company, Inc., 3714 Fort Pierce Street, STARKE, FLORIDA 32091
on — Fractures , affecting the Upper and lower extremities n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was directing a co-worker who was removing rebar from a semi-truck trailer when the rebar caught his pant leg and he fell 4 feet from the trailer to the asphalt. The employee sustained a laceration to his left leg and fractures to his elbow, arm, and left hip.
Hospitalized Upper and lower extremities n.e.c. Other semi, tractor-trailer
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