HAMBURG, NEW YORK—
Aspire of Western New York
Fall on same level, unspecified · Fractures
Final narrative
An employee was walking through a doorway where a plastic parking lot boundary stake (approximately 3 feet in length) was laying on the door threshold, propping open the door. The employee stepped over the stake to exit. When she returned to re-enter the door, she went to reach for the stake to move it and fell face forward, hitting her chin and landing on the concrete floor in the vestibule. She fractured her shoulders.
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