WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA—
U.S. Department of Transportation
Fall while sitting · Fractures
Final narrative
An employee lost consciousness while typing at his desk and fell to the floor. He suffered a fractured shoulder and compression fractures to vertebrae in his back, and was hospitalized.
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