Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at CARLE FOUNDATION HOSPITAL, 611 W. PARK ST., URBANA, ILLINOIS 61801
on — Fractures, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
In the Forum Circle Drive, an employee fell onto the concrete street and sustained injury to their head and a fractured right arm.
At about 1:40 p.m. on November 3, 2020, an employee slipped on a wet floor in a hospital hallway, fell to the floor, and suffered a broken left kneecap.
On May 22, 2020, at approximately 12:00 p.m., an employee was working in a lab drive-through shed when she sprayed a wasp with wasp spray. The wasp started to chase her, so she ran. While running, she tripped and fell in the parking lot, fracturing both wrists.
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 slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.
A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.
An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.
An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.