SAULT SAINTE MARIE, MICHIGAN—
US Army Corps of Engineers
Fall or jump from water vehicle · Fractures
Final narrative
An employee was setting the anchor for an ice-boom onboard a derrick boat. The employee cut a line that was holding the anchor chain and was then struck by a rigging chain. The employee sustained fractures to both bones in the lower right leg and a shoulder injury from falling overboard.
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