Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Name: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at US Postal Service
Start: 5/28/2015

1 hospitalization · 2015053243 · 5/28/2015 · US Postal Service

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Knee(s)
Nature of injury: Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Cause

Event: Fall on same level, n.e.c.
Source: Floor, n.e.c.
Secondary source: Strapping

Employer

Name: US Postal Service
Location: 118 East 5th Ave, KENBRIDGE, VIRGINIA, 23944
NAICS: 491110
Jurisdiction: 0

Narrative

An employee walking across the work room floor became tangled in plastic shipping straps used to hold boxes on a pallet and fell on the right knee. The employee was admitted to the hospital for knee surgery.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown