Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Ampler Pizza II LLC, 1410 Quintard Avenue, ANNISTON, ALABAMA 36201
on — Gunshot wounds , affecting the Leg(s) unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was shot in the leg with a pistol during an altercation with two people who had entered the store without permission.
Hospitalized Leg(s) unspecified Person, other than injured or ill worker unspecified
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