WALL TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY—
New Jersey Natural Gas
Boarding, alighting-excluding slip, trip, fall-single episode · Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments
Final narrative
An employee was tying down a tractor on a flatbed trailer with tie down chains. He then stepped back off the trailer to the ground, and felt pain in his left hip. The employee sustained a torn hip flexor.
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