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 Allied Services, Chestnuthill Recycling Center, EFFORT, PENNSYLVANIA 18330
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the ankle(s) and leg(s), n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was performing vocational training at a recycling center. The employee was emptying a cart of sorted materials as a customer was backing up their car. The car ran over the employee's left calf and ankle. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was assessing a patient who was laying in a hospital bed. The employee tripped on the bed's power cord and fell on her left hip. She was hospitalized with a bruised hip.
On November 15, 2020, an employee attempted to lift a patient that had fallen to the floor. The employee experienced abdominal pain and was hospitalized for a hernia that required surgery.
An employee went into a room to give medication. When she turned to leave, her foot was caught in the oxygen tubing, causing her to trip and fall on her left hip. She suffered a fractured hip, injured right shoulder, and rotated left leg.
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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 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.
An employee tripped and fell while walking to a time clock. She suffered fractures to her left shoulder and right kneecap. She was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was walking down the hall in front of the therapy room when she tripped and fell, striking her right hip on the tile floor. The employee sustained a fractured hip and required surgery.
A nurse was heading to a carpeted hall from the tiled floor of the nurses station and tripped over the transition. She fell and landed on her knee. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured femur.
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.