Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at CEP America-Kansas, LLC., 929 N St Francis, WICHITA, KANSAS 67214
on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).
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Final narrative
An employee was attempting to insert a catheter on a patient when she became violent and kicked the employee, who then contacted an adjacent wall. The employee suffered a fractured hip and was hospitalized.
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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