FRANKLIN, MASSACHUSETTS—
Garelick Farms
Moving in same direction, nonroadway · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
Final narrative
Two employees were driving stackers, traveling in the same direction one behind the other and with the squeeze mechanisms trailing. The first employee stopped, and the squeeze mechanism of the first stacker went through the back opening of the driver's compartment and struck the second employee in the pelvis.
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