Intentional injury by other person, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Christiana Care Health Systems, 4755 Ogletown Stanton Rd., NEWARK, DELAWARE 19718
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the neck and back.
Final narrative
An employee was struck by a patient and knocked to the floor, requiring hospitalization and surgery on her neck and back.
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