Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Nutrien AG Solutions, Inc., 469 Leavitt Rd, MILLBROOK, NEW YORK 12545
on — Fractures , affecting the Part of body unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee climbed an aluminum extension ladder inside a grain bin to help remove a stirring machine. As the farmer began to lower the stirring machine from the top, one of the ropes broke, causing the stirring machine to strike the ladder and knock it out from under the employee. The employee fell to the base of the grain bin and sustained fractures requiring hospitalization.
Hospitalized Part of body unspecified Extension ladders
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