Pedal cycle collision in nonroadway area · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Denver Children's Home, East 9th Ave and Colorado Blvd., DENVER, COLORADO 80220
on — Fractures, affecting the multiple trunk locations.
Final narrative
The employee was leading a group of clients on a bike ride when she came to a temporary construction walkway. The employee swerved to avoid a shoe in the middle of the walkway at which point a 2 x 4 wooden plank that was sticking out into the walkway got caught in her front wheel. The employee fell off her bike onto her left side and was hospitalized with broken ribs and a fractured back.
An employee was teaching a downhill mountain bike class when he went over a small jump. The bike struck a deer as it landed, and he flew off. He suffered six broken ribs, a broken collarbone, a broken scapula, and a punctured lung. He was hospitalized.
An employee was riding a bicycle in a basement hallway. He stood up to get leverage and his head struck a steam pipe, which knocked him to the ground. He was hospitalized for a concussion and bruising of the spinal column.
An employee was riding a bicycle. While still on the property at a crossroad, she was struck by a car. The employee sustained fractured ribs, a fractured clavicle, a fractured nose, and bleeding in the brain.
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An employee was riding a bicycle on the flight line apron headed to a building when the employee was struck by the trailing edge of a B-1 stabilizer on a parked trailer. The employee suffered facial fractures and lacerations.
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