Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc., 215 Spettle Rd., LAKEHILLS, TEXAS 78063
on — Fractures, affecting the lumbar region.
Final narrative
An employee slipped and fell backwards while moving a couch, suffering a lumbar compression fracture.
A maintenance employee was transporting a pizza oven to a truck using a cart. The oven slipped from the cart during transport and hit the employee's leg. The employee suffered lacerations and cut tendons in the calf area. He was hospitalized for surgery.
An employee was cleaning the trailer community's pool cage with a pressure washer. He was later found on the ground with a bleeding wound to the head. The pressure washer was running and a ladder was lying beside it when the employee was found.
An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.
An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.
An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.
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An employee parked their car and was walking into a restaurant when their right hand got stuck in an elevator door, resulting in partial amputations of four fingers.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
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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.