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OSHA Raises Concern Over Employers' Nurses Downplaying Ergo Injuries


January 14, 2015 at 11:12 PM
OSHA is voicing concern to employers, especially in sectors where federal officials have raised red flags over ergonomics, about in-house licensed nurses potentially downplaying musculoskeletal and other worker injuries by treating them as first aid-type incidents that never show up on the companies' OSHA recordkeeping logs.

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