Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at THE GEO GROUP INC, 600 US Highway 27, SOUTH BAY, FLORIDA 33493
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the face, unspecified.
Final narrative
A nurse was performing work duties when an inmate struck her with a rock, resulting in multiple facial injuries.
HospitalizedFace, unspecifiedInmate or detainee in custody
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Five employees were searching an inmate's property when they were assaulted by the inmate. One employee was hospitalized with a broken ankle, which required surgery.
An employee was in training for defensive tactics. As she attempted to perform a hip toss move, she felt a tearing sensation in her lower back. She was hospitalized with a lower back injury.
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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