Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving · Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Justice Resource Institute, Inc., 13 Pelham Road, LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02421
on — Cerebral and other intracranial hemorrhages, affecting the brain.
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Final narrative
An employee was helping restrain a 14-year-old mental health patient. The patient freed a leg and kicked the employee multiple times in the back of the head, causing a brain bleed. The employee was hospitalized.
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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