Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Tesla Distribution Center, 4401 Live Oak Drive, THE COLONY, TEXAS 75056
on — Hernias, affecting the Abdomen unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was reaching to hook her harness into a lanyard and began to experience abdominal pain. The employee sustained an umbilical hernia.
Hospitalized Abdomen unspecified Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
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