Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Dillard's Inc, 3437 Masonic Drive, ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA 71301
on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee fractured her hip when she tripped over the base of a clothing rack in the ladies dressing department.
On March 7, 2020, an employee went to talk to a co-worker in a back office which is near a stock room/merchandise processing area. In that area, cardboard boxes are broken down and flattened so they can be removed from the area. Afterwards, she walked to the merchandise processing area, slipped on a cardboard box, and fell to the floor. She was hospitalized with a sprained knee and fractures to her left femur and hip.
An employee arrived at work and was walking into the store through the parking lot. The employee tripped over a curb and fell to the ground, sustaining a femur fracture.
An employee was unloading a trailer on the receiving dock using a stand up powered industrial vehicle (PIV). A yard truck pulled the trailer away from the dock and the PIV fell backward out of the trailer. The employee struck their back on the headache rack of the PIV and was caught between it and the dock plate. The employee was hospitalized with a blunt force injury.
An employee had been hanging a jacket on a wall peg while standing on a ladder. The employee missed a step while decending the ladder and fell to the ground sustaining a fractured elbow.
A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.
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.
A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.
An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.