Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at ST. ELIZABETH'S HOSPITAL, 211 SOUTH THIRD STREET, BELLEVILLE, ILLINOIS 62220
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the elbow(s).
Final narrative
An employee was in the hallway when a patient ran up and began hitting her in the face. The patient then grabbed the employee's leg and pulled her into a room. The employee fell, injuring her elbow.
An employee was trying to prevent a patient from leaving the hospital. The employee's head struck a door and the ground, and a bone in his neck was broken.
On 12/25/16 at approximately 11:30 AM, an employee sustained first degree burns to the forearms and right hand while troubleshooting an energized pneumatic document tube system's panelboard.
An employee was performing preventive maintenance on a pump to a commercial washing machine. After using water to prime the pump, the employee ran the cleaning fluid to the pump. Residual water with cleaning product was caught in a hand-held container. The employee inhaled the cleaning product odor and experienced respiratory tract irritation and distress.
A store employee was pushed by a shoplifter into the frame of the entrance door to the store. The employee's head struck the doorframe resulting in head injuries and contusions on her hand and arm. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was making patient rounds at the hospital and stopped to talk with the charge nurse in front of the nurse's station. A patient reached over the nurse's station, grabbed a metal three-hole paper punch from over the desk, and proceeded to attack the employee with it. The employee sustained lacerations to the head and face, a fractured forearm, and a fractured little finger.
A teacher's assistant was attending to a student in the quiet room when they were pushed by another student. The employee fell to the floor and sustained a left hip fracture.
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