Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at West Tents Inc., 19 Route 296, WINDHAM, NEW YORK 12496
on — Fractures , affecting the Multiple body parts unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was working with a co-worker to unload an industrial oven from a box truck. The oven fell and struck the employee, resulting in hospitalization for two fractured ribs and three fractured vertebrae.
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