Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at MERCY HOSPITAL ST. LOUIS, 615 South New Ballas Road, SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI 63141
on — Fractures , affecting the Trunk and other upper extremities.
Final narrative
An employee was walking through the department when she tripped and fell over the corner of a pallet. She landed on her right side and sustained a right nondisplaced humerus fracture and multiple nondisplaced rib fractures, resulting in hospitalization.
Hospitalized Trunk and other upper extremities Other constructed surface
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