Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2020-02-07 | Pompton Plains | New Jersey | Atlantic Health System | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
Two employees were repositioning a patient in bed when one of them suffered a back injury. | |||||
2018-08-20 | Pompton Plains | New Jersey | CEDAR CREST VILLAGE | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was using a chair dolly to remove stacked chairs from a box truck onto a loading dock. While backing out of the truck, his right foot stepped into a void off the right side of the truck. He then fell 4 feet off the dock onto a concrete curb and the chairs fell on top of him. He suffered three broken ribs on the right side, a cut to the forehead, and a nose laceration. | |||||
2018-01-08 | Pompton Plains | New Jersey | Chilton Medical Center | Multiple trunk locations | Injured by physical contact with person while restraining, subduing-unintentional |
An employee was helping to subdue a patient who suddenly became violent when the patient punched her. She was hospitalized with lower back and hip pain. |