Sgt. Brian Simpson slipped and fell while trying to stop a prison inmate’s assault on a fellow corrections officer last year, fracturing a bone in his knee when he landed hard.
A patient attacked Oregon State Hospital therapist Brant Johnson, raking him with a sharp thumbnail and leaving a deep scratch down his face and chest that became badly infected.
A jack slipped and a trailer fell on Department of Transportation responder Leland Erickson in 2003, breaking his sternum as he helped change a tire along a busy highway.
It’s easy for the public to think of state workers as pencil-pushing bureaucrats, but thousands are injured every year while performing high-risk jobs full of physical labor or potential confrontation.
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