Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Mount Carmel Health System, 6001 E Broad Street, COLUMBUS, OHIO 43213
on — Fractures , affecting the Thigh(s).
Final narrative
An employee was walking to put something away when she fell to the ground and sustained a fracture to her left femur and a facial contusion.
Hospitalized Thigh(s) Ground, travel, and support surfaces unspecified
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