Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Circle K Stores Inc. , 4500 E. Olive Rd., PENSACOLA, FLORIDA 32514
on — Fractures, affecting the jaw, chin.
Final narrative
An employee was sweeping the parking lot by the gas pumps when a customer punched him in the face multiple times. He was hospitalized with a broken jaw.
On June 24,2025, the injured employee had assisted another employee with removing a violent person from the premises. The person tried to get back into the store and started wrestling the employees. This caused the injured employee to trip and fall onto the pavement. The employee was hospitalized with a hematoma to their right hip.
An employee was bending down pumping a spill bucket. A customer was driving away from a gas pump and struck the employee. The employee sustained a laceration to their left hand and an amputation to their ring finger.
An employee was restocking a display when it started to fall. As she was getting out of the way from the falling display, her foot got caught in the utility cart that the display sits on and she fell. She fractured her left hip.
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.
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