Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Brookwood Baptist Medical Center, 2010 Birmingham Medical Center Drive, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA 35209
on — Fractures , affecting the Hip joint(s).
Final narrative
An employee was draping a patient in the cardiac catheterization lab when he tripped over the x-ray paddle cable and fell to the floor, fracturing his right hip.
Hospitalized Hip joint(s) Other constructed surface
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