NEW CANEY, TEXAS·
Olameter Corporation LLC
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Sprains, strains, minor tears
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Olameter Corporation LLC, 117 White Oak, NEW CANEY, TEXAS 77357 on , Sprains, strains, minor tears, affecting the knee(s).
Final narrative
An employee was manually reading the electric meters at an abandoned home. He was walking back to his vehicle through overgrown vegetation and household debris when he stepped in a hole, twisted his left knee, and fell to the ground. As he got up and tried to walk, his right knee twisted as well and he fell a second time. The employee sustained a torn left quadricep tendon and a torn right patellar tendon requiring hospitalization and surgery.
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