Overexertion in lifting, lowering, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL, #1 BARNES PLAZA, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI 63110
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the multiple trunk locations.
Final narrative
An employee was assisting another worker to move a patient from their bed onto a wheel chair and strained her back and twisted her stomach.
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