OSHA Injury Report: NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, East New York

At a glance

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What was the outcome?

Before the incident

Employee stated that while she was attempted to sit in an elevated wheeled chair in the exam room to start examination on a patient and the chair rolled moved and she missed the seat and she fell onto her right side onto the floor hitting right hip upper arm shoulder and mid-back. Body aches and pain to the right hip upper arm shoulder and midback. No injury reported.

What happened

Employee stated that while she was attempted to sit in an elevated wheeled chair in the exam room to start examination on a patient and the chair rolled moved and she missed the seat and she fell onto her right side onto the floor hitting right hip upper arm shoulder and mid-back. Body aches and pain to the right hip upper arm shoulder and midback. No injury reported.

Injury or illness

Employee did not seek medical treatment

Object or substance involved

Employee did not seek medical treatment

Summary line

Employee stated that while she was attempted to sit in an elevated wheeled chair in the exam room to start examination on a patient and the chair rolled moved and she missed the seat and she fell onto her right side onto the floor hitting right hip upper

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Source

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2025. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.