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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

VIRTUA- WEST JERSEY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC.

Hitting, kicking, beating by other person while providing protective services · Concussions

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at VIRTUA- WEST JERSEY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC., 100 BOWMAN DRIVE, VOORHEES, NEW JERSEY 08043 on — Concussions, affecting the Brain.

A patient punched a security officer in the face. The officer suffered a concussion.

Hospitalized Brain Patient

VIRTUA- WEST JERSEY HEALTH SYSTEM, INC.

Nurses were repositioning a patient in an operating room bed. As the injured employee lifted the patient's lower legs, she felt pain in her lower back from a muscle strain.

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MERCY HOSPITAL

A security guard was responding to a call regarding an aggressive patient in the emergency room. The patient punched the employee in their face and chest. The employee left the patient's room and then became unresponsive due to cardiac arrest.

C. Anderson & Associates, LLC

The injured employee was helping to detain an inmate. A security guard slammed the inmate on top of the injured employee. The employee sustained a back/neck injury.

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

An employee was registering a patient in police custody in an emergency department. The patient tried to escape, and police/security personnel bumped into the employee during the resulting scuffle. The employee fell and suffered a broken right tibia and fibula.

Karnes County Correctional Center

A corrections officer was working with others to restrain an inmate. During the takedown, the other officers and the inmate landed on the officer, who suffered a fracture to the right hip.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

SIH Memorial Hospital of Carbondale

An employee slipped on water in a hospital hallway, fell, and landed on his left hip. He suffered a contusion and fracture to the hip.

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.