ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS—
Northwest Community Hospital
Fall while sitting · Fractures
Final narrative
An employee was sitting at a nurses' station. As she got up from her chair, she tripped over a purse that was underneath the chair and fell to the floor, resulting in a closed fracture of her right tibia.
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