AURORA, COLORADO—
Rex Nova Transportation
Struck by door, gate, window · Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries
Final narrative
An employee was moving trucks in the yard. He was working between trucks when a back door swung open and caught their right hand against the frame of another truck. The employee sustained a crushing injury to a finger.
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