On Thursday, June 9 a group of union officials and workers at the Potomac Center in the West End of Hagerstown called on the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to help them to fight the problems of patient assaults on employees, which they say cause injuries including broken bones and leave ongoing mental trauma.

Workers complain that it is not a safe place to work and they are asking for more staff and training as well as more options for residents. It appears that over the last few years, assaults on employees have increased as the patients, which used to be developmentally disabled, now have more violent histories.

The state health department said that it is aware of the complaints and assured that they do take the safety of the employees seriously citing research from the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety which shows that violent crime in hospitals has fallen by nearly 70% from 2014 to 2105 with violent crime taking place in 0.09 incidents per 100 hospital beds last year. However, assaults and disorderly conduct increased over the same time frame.

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More than one million people in the U.S. each year are affected by repetitive stress injuries which can be very painful and prevent you from working.

Repetitive stress injuries develop if you are doing the same task using the same part of your body over and over again. This can then lead to inflammation of the tissues which makes it painful and hard to do your job. One example is those who are on computers all day long, using the keyboard which can lead to wrist problems due to repetitive stress. In a similar way, those who use vibrating tools such as a hammer drill can also suffer from this injury.

Repetitive stress injuries can have different names, depending where the injury is so it can be a rotator cuff syndrome if in the shoulder, tennis elbow or carpal tunnel syndrome in the wrist.

With a repetitive stress injury, there may be swelling, which can cause numbness and pain, along with difficulty performing daily tasks.

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