Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at KEYSTONE COMMUNITY RESOURCES, 215 HICKORY STREET, SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA 18505
on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was working with a client as part of the day program when the client experienced a behavioral outburst and pushed the employee to the floor. The employee suffered a broken hip and had to be hospitalized.
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.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 621420)
An employee fell sideways down a flight of 15 stairs. The employee suffered a concussion, at least four rib fractures, a broken tailbone, a skull fracture, and a punctured lung.
An employee was providing care to patients when another patient attempted to enter the room and attacked the employee. She was kicked, punched, and thrown to the ground. The employee sustained a concussion and was knocked unconscious. The employee was hospitalized for injuries that included a broken collar bone, broken ribs, and a punctured lung.
An employee was riding a horse when it spooked, bucked, and threw the employee off its back. The employee suffered a broken pelvis and internal bleeding and they were hospitalized.
An employee was walking down a set of stairs when they fell. The employee sustained injuries to their neck, back, and shoulders. The employee 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.