Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Sanford Medical Center Fargo, 5225 23rd Avenue South, FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA 58104
on — Fractures , affecting the Hip joint(s).
Final narrative
An employee was pushing a case cart full of surgical tools out of the elevator and caught her shoe on some damaged/peeling flooring. She fell to the ground and fractured her hip.
Hospitalized Hip joint(s) Constructed surface irregularity
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