Multiple types of exertions and bodily reactions · Multiple traumatic injuries to muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, etc.
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at FBI ACADEMY LIBRARY, FBI ACADEMY, QUANTICO, VIRGINIA 22135
on — Multiple traumatic injuries to muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints, etc., affecting the multiple body parts, unspecified.
Final narrative
After participating in a physical training exercise, an employee began to lose feeling in his lower extremities. He was hospitalized, having suffered bulging disks, an annular tear, and a muscle injury.
HospitalizedMultiple body parts, unspecifiedBodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
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