Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Altru Health System, 1200 South Columbia Road, GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58201
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the lumbar region.
Final narrative
An employee was folding a wheelchair pedal upward and when the employee stood up the employee experienced acute pain in their lower back and down the right leg.
HospitalizedLumbar regionBodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
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