Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. #137, 1401 West 41st Street, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA 57105
on — Fractures, affecting the wrist(s).
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Final narrative
An employee returning to the store from her vehicle tripped over a curb and contacted the ground, breaking her left wrist. She required surgery and hospitalization.
A nurse was visiting the home of a patient for requested treatment. She tripped on her gown while going up the steps to the property, falling and fracturing her left femur.
An employee was walking up an escalator that was out of service when they tripped on a step, fell, and suffered a closed fracture to the right femur as well as a dislocated right patella.
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