Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Valley Baptist Medical Center-Brownsville, 1040 W. Jefferson St., BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS 78520
on — Fractures, affecting the multiple body parts, n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was walking to clock-in when they lost footing and fell. The employee sustained fractures to the right facial bones at the right maxillary incisors and a fractured patella. The employee was hospitalized.
HospitalizedMultiple body parts, n.e.c.Floor, unspecified
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