DALTON, GEORGIA—
Columbia Recycling Corporation
Boarding, alighting-excluding slip, trip, fall-single episode · Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
Final narrative
An employee stepped out of his truck at a public landfill, heard his knee pop, and fell. The employee sustained a separated left kneecap, requiring hospitalization and surgery.
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