Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Oconomowoc Residential Programs, 2633 Sandra Rose Lane, NEW FRANKEN, WISCONSIN 54229
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the lumbar region.
Final narrative
An employee was assisting a client who was laying in bed. He bent over the bed to cover the client with blankets when he felt a sharp pain and pull in his lower back area, then fell onto his knees on the floor. He was unable to get up and required hospitalization.
HospitalizedLumbar regionBodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
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