Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Pitney Bowes, 4401 Freidrich Ln, AUSTIN, TEXAS 78744
on — Fractures, affecting the knee(s).
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Final narrative
An employee was attempting to step over a tow bar between mail carts when her foot was caught on the bar. She fell to the floor and fractured her knee.
On 9/18/2020, at 9 PM, a temporary employee was crossing a dock to guide a trailer into a door when a crossing/passing forklift ran over his foot. He was hospitalized with a fractured left ankle.
An employee was working on a presorting machine. She was pushing a stack of mail trays across the floor when the trays fell over. She fell over with the trays and fractured her leg.
An employee arrived at work and was walking into the store through the parking lot. The employee tripped over a curb and fell to the ground, sustaining a femur fracture.
An employee was driving a reach truck when it struck another reach truck that just stopped with its forks raised. The forks penetrated the operator compartment of the employee's vehicle and broke his right tibia and fibula. He was hospitalized and underwent surgery.
An employee was separating lighting on electrical relays. The employee was shocked by wires and fell from a ladder to the ground, suffering a broken hip.
At about 6:00 p.m., an employee was leaving his truck when he slipped and fell, his left side and back striking the truck's bumper. He suffered muscle and tendon injuries and lower back pain.
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.