Chicagoland Paving Contractors, Inc.
2025-08-13 · LAKE BLUFF, ILLINOIS
Final narrative
A truck driver was on a platform, pulling a tarp on an asphalt load in a six-wheel dump truck. He fell from the platform to the ground and suffered broken ribs.
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