HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS—
UPS
Other exertions or bodily reactions, n.e.c. · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
Final narrative
An employee was delivering a carpet with a cart. The carpet fell off the cart, and the employee injured his shoulder when he tried to grab it.
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