Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Goodwill Industries of Central Oklahoma, Inc., 9118 S Western, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA 73139
on — Fractures , affecting the Upper and lower extremities n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was carrying a dress from the back room onto the sales floor. As she was walking, she tripped on the bottom of the dress and fell to the floor. The employee sustained a laceration to the head, a fractured right shoulder, and a fractured right hip.
Hospitalized Upper and lower extremities n.e.c. Other constructed surface
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