Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Hallmark Marketing, Inc., 2101 S Lamar Boulevard, AUSTIN, TEXAS 78704
on — Fractures , affecting the Hip joint(s).
Final narrative
An employee was putting a box onto a cart when a handle on the box broke and the cart began to roll away from her. She lost her balance, fell with the box still in her hands, and broke her left hip. She was hospitalized.
Hospitalized Hip joint(s) Other constructed surface
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