Transportation incident, unspecified · Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR, 7001 ESSINGTON AVE, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 19153
on — Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified, affecting the nonclassifiable.
Final narrative
While retrieving a rental car for a customer from the parking lot, an employee was struck by another employee-driven vehicle.
An employee was descending a set of stairs when he stumbled on the last step and fell onto his right side. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip and required surgery.
A car rental employee was walking between two vehicles when a customer-driven vehicle struck her. She suffered a broken right hip and contusions to the right knee and left arm.
An employee was replacing a waterline and moving equipment with a loader when they were struck by a front-end wheel loader. They sustained arm and leg fractures.
An employee was selecting when they were struck by a pallet on another powered industrial truck (PIT). The employee sustained fractures to the left fibula and right ankle requiring hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was disconnecting a rope from a barge. The employee's middle, ring, and little fingers were crushed between two barges. The employee was hospitalized.
On October 5, 2020, an employee was pinned between a stand-up powered industrial truck and a storage shelf. The employee was hospitalized for possible broken ribs and facial lacerations.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 532111)
An employee was descending a set of stairs when he stumbled on the last step and fell onto his right side. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip and required surgery.
An employee fell while getting into a company vehicle. He sustained scrapes to the head, lower back, right arm and right leg. He was hospitalized with a headache and blurred vison.
An employee was getting into a vehicle to move it into the garage when they fell backward and struck their head on the ground. The employee sustained a skull fracture.
An employee was closing the store for the night. While closing the gate to the parking area, the gate dislodged from the tracks. The employee proceeded to lift the gate back onto the tracks and caught their right ring finger between the gate and the tracks, resulting in amputation of the fingertip.
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.