Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Salisbury Behavioral Health Inc., 919 Cherry Hill Lane , POTTSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 19464
on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was walking backwards while assisting a client when she fell to the ground, fracturing her hip.
HospitalizedHip(s)Floor, unspecified
More severe injuries at Salisbury Behavioral Health Inc.
An employee was walking behind the store with another associate to get paperwork from the delivery driver when she fell on the walkway and sustained a leg fracture that required surgery.
An employee was adjusting the forks on a forklift when a fork detached from the forklift. The employee jumped out of the way but fell on the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken hip.
The injured employee was completing safety crisis management training. During a practice hold, she went from standing to kneeling, misstepped, and fell with her trainer to the ground. The trainer landed on the injured employee's leg, fracturing her right fibula. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
Five employees were searching an inmate's property when they were assaulted by the inmate. One employee was hospitalized with a broken ankle, which required surgery.
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.