Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Quest Diagnostics, 10101 Renner Blvd., LENEXA, KANSAS 66219
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee slipped and fell on steps while walking into the building from the parking lot, suffering a possible broken hip.
An employee was approaching a client's lockbox to pick up specimens. He tripped over the curb and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a broken left hip that required surgery.
An employee was walking down the hallway to get a trash bag from housekeeping when they slipped on the wet floor and fell. The employee sustained a fractured right knee.
An employee was picking up specimens at a client location when they fell down the steps, sustaining fractures to the kneecap, femur, and teeth, as well as a head injury and brain hemorrhaging.
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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