Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at CVS Pharmacy, 8234 Broadway Street, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77061
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the head and trunk.
Final narrative
An employee observed a shoplifter with stolen merchandise and confronted the shoplifter as he entered his car. The shoplifter put the car in reverse with the door open and quickly backed out of the parking lot. The door struck the employee, injuring the employee's head and back.
An employee was working in the store s merchandise storage room unpacking totes of merchandise that had recently been delivered. While moving totes, the employee fell on the same level and sustained a fractured left hip requiring hospitalization.
An employee was receiving a delivery and unwrapping shrink wrap from totes on a pallet. Some totes fell out causing him to fall backward, and then additional items fell on him. The employee sustained injuries to his back and ribs.
An employee was removing outdated products from a stand-up pharmacy cooler. When the employee stood up, he lost balance and grabbed the door handle, causing the cooler to tip over. The employee fell backward onto the ground and the cooler fell on them. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture and a contusion.
An employee was helping a customer and placed a basket on the floor. As she continued to work, the employee tripped over the basket and fell, sustaining knee and femur fractures.
An employee was assisting customers at the registers when a car came through the wall behind them. A large printer then struck the employee who sustained a spinal fracture.
An employee was looking into the bucket of a front-end loader to see how much material was in it. A skid steer backed into the employee, who then fell into the edge of the front loader's bucket and suffered internal bleeding in the abdominal area.
An employee was spotting for a forklift operation. The forklift backed over the employee, who suffered a complete amputation to one lower leg and a partial amputation to the other leg. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was cleaning his work area and preparing it to begin making air-set molds
when a nearby forklift that was backing out from a load swung around and struck the employee. They sustained a lower left leg fracture.
An employee was loading cardboard into a cardboard bailer to be compressed. The machine began to operate with the door open, and the employee's left hand was fractured.
An employee was walking to their car after work. They tripped over a concrete parking stop and fell in the parking lot. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion.
An employee was putting a box onto a cart when a handle on the box broke and the cart began to roll away from her. She lost her balance, fell with the box still in her hands, and broke her left hip. She was hospitalized.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.