HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA—
Seventeenth Street Associates LLC
Overexertion involving outside sources, unspecified · Hernias due to traumatic incidents
Final narrative
An employee sustained an inguinal hernia while moving a patient from a bed onto a lift.
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