Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Oxford Development Company, 501 Penn Avenue, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15222
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee suffered a back injury while getting up from his desk chair.
HospitalizedBack, including spine, spinal cord, unspecifiedBodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
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