Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at The Children's Home of Reading, 1010 Centre Avenue, READING, PENNSYLVANIA 19601
on — Concussions, affecting the brain.
Final narrative
An employee tried to prevent a client from leaving a residential unit. The client went through a door leading into a stairwell. Staff continued to try to de-escalate and stop the client from leaving the unit. The client pushed the employee, who fell down the stairs and suffered a concussion. The employee was 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 621330)
The injured employee was completing safety crisis management training. During a practice hold, she went from standing to kneeling, misstepped, and fell with her trainer to the ground. The trainer landed on the injured employee's leg, fracturing her right fibula. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
Five employees were searching an inmate's property when they were assaulted by the inmate. One employee was hospitalized with a broken ankle, which required surgery.
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.