Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at St. Ann's Senior Housing Inc., 900 Cherry Ridge Blvd., WEBSTER, NEW YORK 14580
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was walking in the kitchen galley when she tripped over a cord that was hanging off the back of a portable hotbox. She fell to the floor landing on her right side/bottom. The employee required hip surgery.
HospitalizedHip(s)Floor, n.e.c.
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