Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at RWJ Barnabas Health Medical Group, 377 Jersey Ave, JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY 07302
on — Fractures , affecting the Ankle(s).
Final narrative
An employee was getting up from her chair when she twisted her left ankle and then injured her right foot while falling. The employee was hospitalized with a closed displaced trimalleolar fracture of the right ankle.
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