Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Valley Markets, Inc., 1950 32nd Avenue South, GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58201
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee twisted to reach for something while working at the counter and experienced severe back pain, requiring hospitalization.
HospitalizedBack, including spine, spinal cord, unspecifiedBodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
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