Multiple types of exertions and bodily reactions · Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at VA Connecticut Healthcare System, 950 Campbell Avenue, WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT 06516
on , Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury, affecting the knee(s).
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Final narrative
On March 19, 2022, an employee was working a 12-hour shift at an emergency room when, after 8 hours, she began to experience spasms in her right leg, down the thigh and to knee, and shortly after reported feeling her knee pop. The employee finished her shift. The next morning, the employee's knee was swollen and could not bend or bear weight. The employee was hospitalized.
HospitalizedKnee(s)Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker