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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

VIRTUA- WEST JERSEY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC.

Exposure to other harmful substances, unspecified · Cellulitis and abscess

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at VIRTUA- WEST JERSEY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC., 175 MADISON AVENUE, MOUNT HOLLY, NEW JERSEY 08060 on — Cellulitis and abscess, affecting the eye(s).

An employee who was caring for patients received a bacterial infection.

Hospitalized Eye(s) Bacteria

VIRTUA- WEST JERSEY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC.

Nurses were repositioning a patient in an operating room bed. As the injured employee lifted the patient's lower legs, she felt pain in her lower back from a muscle strain.

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Boston Medical Center

An employee went into anaphylactic shock after exposure to a dog at work.

Contract Manufacturer, L.L.C.

An employee was in a wash bay using an alkaline chemical cleaner to clean truck beds. The employee began experiencing lip numbness and facial and eye redness. The employee also experienced breathing difficulties, resulting in hospitalization.

HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital

A nurse in the intensive care unit was treating a patient with an infection when they contracted the infection and were hospitalized.

Bank of America Corporation

On February 15, 2023, at approximately 5:15 p.m., an employee laid her head down on a desk and then noticed that her face and tongue were swollen. She later had trouble breathing while driving home. The employee was hospitalized for a potential allergic reaction.

Pale Inc.

An employee used a water-repellant chemical and experienced respiratory distress. The employee was hospitalized.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

SIH Memorial Hospital of Carbondale

An employee slipped on water in a hospital hallway, fell, and landed on his left hip. He suffered a contusion and fracture to the hip.

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.