Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving · Skull fracture and intracranial injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Aluminum & Glass Door, Inc., 2270 NW 30th Place, POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA 33069
on — Skull fracture and intracranial injury, affecting the brain.
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Final narrative
An employee was getting ready to leave for a jobsite in the morning and needed to put something away in his car when a stranger approached him and hit him in the head. He suffered a cracked skull and bleeding/swelling on the brain.
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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