BUDA, TEXAS—
Texas Landfill Management LLC
Struck by animal, n.e.c. · Fractures
Final narrative
An employee was helping to move game animals when one of them charged the employee, collided with him, and knocked him to the ground. He sustained a fractured cervical vertebrae, sprained left hand, and a cut to the head that required stitches.
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