It was reported to the manufacturer by the distributor, per the end user she was working on the day of this alleged accident she had two staff members there that witnessed the matter.She confirmed the resident has an involuntary jerking disorder and was in the hoyer lift when her lower extremities started jerking uncontrollably and she jerked her body out of the sling and fell to the floor.She confirms the hoyer lift did not break and the and the straps did not break.After the accident, she had internal maintenance guy look at the hoyer lift involved and they confirmed nothing was found defective and the unit was never taken out of service.They did not report anything to joerns as nothing found with the product, they checked out all the units in the hospital just to make sure they were in good working order and confirmed they are.The hoyer lift is still in use in their facility and did not cause this accident.The resident was taken to the hospital and sustained a vertebral compression fracture.
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