Nonroadway noncollision vehicle overturn · Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Haliburton Energy Services, 302 Mt. Herman Road, LITTLETON, WEST VIRGINIA 26581
on — Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages without skull fracture , affecting the Brain.
Final narrative
An employee was delivering a load to a customer location. As the employee made a right-hand turn onto a road, the tractor trailer tracked off the roadway and overturned. The employee sustained bleeding on the brain, a fractured collarbone, and a fractured finger.
Hospitalized Brain Other semi, tractor-trailer
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