Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Pizza Hut, 2131 N Pierce Ave, SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI 65803
on — Fractures, affecting the skull.
Final narrative
On December 10, 2015, at approximately 10:00 p.m., a pizza delivery driver had given pizza to the customer and was standing at the doorway asking for payment. The customer refused payment. An unknown person(s) approached the deliverer from behind and struck his head with a baseball bat. The delivery driver was able to get away and call for assistance. The driver was hospitalized with a skull fracture.
On January 3, 2023, at 8:45 p.m., an employee was delivering pizzas when they were ambushed by a robber and stabbed in the back with a knife. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was exiting a room when she attempted to straighten a high chair, turned, and her foot became caught on the wall. She fell to the ground and fractured her femur.
A store employee was pushed by a shoplifter into the frame of the entrance door to the store. The employee's head struck the doorframe resulting in head injuries and contusions on her hand and arm. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was making patient rounds at the hospital and stopped to talk with the charge nurse in front of the nurse's station. A patient reached over the nurse's station, grabbed a metal three-hole paper punch from over the desk, and proceeded to attack the employee with it. The employee sustained lacerations to the head and face, a fractured forearm, and a fractured little finger.
A teacher's assistant was attending to a student in the quiet room when they were pushed by another student. The employee fell to the floor and sustained a left hip fracture.
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