Other fall to lower level, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Geisinger Medical Center, 2018 N Vine Street, BERWICK, PENNSYLVANIA 18603
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the ankle(s).
Final narrative
An employee was stocking supplies in a parked ambulance when she fell out the back door to the ground and twisted her ankle.
HospitalizedAnkle(s)Ambulance, police, and other emergency passenger vehicle
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