POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK·2020-10-11

VASSAR BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER

Overexertion involving outside sources, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

At a glance

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at VASSAR BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER, 45 Reade Place, POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK 12601 on 2020-10-11, Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified.

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Final narrative

An employee was transporting a patient on a gurney when she felt a sharp pain in the right side of her back. The employee was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified Stretchers, backboards, wheeled cots, stair chairs

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