Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at US Department of Agriculture, 22023 Job Corps Place, NEMO, SOUTH DAKOTA 57759
on — Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions , affecting the multiple head locations.
Final narrative
An employee was conducting accountability checks and noticed a student was still awake. When the employee reminded the student of the lights-out policy, the student punched the employee. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion, facial fractures, orbital fractures, and dental fractures.
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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