Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Rescue Mission of Utica, 293 Genesee Street, UTICA, NEW YORK 13501
on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was working in the office when he was asked by a co-worker to assist with defusing a situation with a client. Another client then approached the employee and bumped/pushed him, causing the employee to fall to the floor and land on his hip. The employee sustained a hip fracture that required surgery.
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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