Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Walgreens Co., 2069 Broadway, NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10023
on — Concussions, affecting the brain.
Final narrative
An employee attempted to stop a shoplifter and was punched in the face. The employee fell and struck his head on the ground, suffering a head contusion and concussion.
An employee was walking into the store when she slipped on ice in the parking lot. The employee was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle and a fractured leg that required surgery.
An employee was bringing in the daily drop of newspapers from outside the sliding doors and fell, resulting in an elbow laceration and right hip fracture. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was walking on a concrete walkway when they tripped on a bump in the concrete and fell to the ground, resulting in a fractured and dislocated right shoulder.
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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