Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at MERS Goodwill, 1727 Locust Street, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI 63103
on — Fractures , affecting the Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the neck.
Final narrative
An employee was unpacking donations from a donation bin and moving a portable canopy when he lost his balance and fell forward. The employee struck his head on the concrete and sustained a fractured C4 vertebra and a laceration to the forehead that required stitches.
Hospitalized Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the neck Other constructed surface
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