Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Northside Hospital, Inc., 450 Northside Cherokee Boulevard, CANTON, GEORGIA 30115
on — Soft tissue injuries unspecified, affecting the Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee suffered a back injury while putting medical charts into a storage cabinet.
Hospitalized Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
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