Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Womencare Inc., 3911 Teays Valley Road, HURRICANE, WEST VIRGINIA 25526
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the knee(s).
Final narrative
On July 16, 2018, at approximately 1:45 p.m., an employee was climbing a stool to reach papers on a top shelf when she fell and injured her left knee, requiring hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.
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