Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Universal Health Services, Inc., 1250 Drummers Lane, WAYNE, PENNSYLVANIA 19080
on — Fractures, affecting the thigh(s).
Final narrative
An employee fell in the ladies restroom fracturing the femur in seven places. She was hospitalized as a result.
An employee was walking behind the store with another associate to get paperwork from the delivery driver when she fell on the walkway and sustained a leg fracture that required surgery.
An employee was adjusting the forks on a forklift when a fork detached from the forklift. The employee jumped out of the way but fell on the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken hip.
An employee was working from a step ladder, changing a bulb on a ceiling light fixture. He was electrocuted, causing him to fall off the step ladder onto a concrete countertop, fracturing several ribs.
An employee had arrived at work and placed their stuff down on a desk. The employee was walking away when they tripped on their feet and fell on the floor. The employee sustained a pelvic fracture.
An employee was stepping from a railcar to a work platform and missed the step. They fell approximately 14 feet from the railcar to the ground and sustained a broken wrist and fractured pelvis and were hospitalized.
An employee was walking down a flight of stairs when she tripped at a landing and fell, landing nine stairs below. She suffered two broken arms (one of them a spiral fracture) and was hospitalized.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.