Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Shannon Medical Center, 120 E Harris, SAN ANGELO, TEXAS 76903
on — Fractures, affecting the knee(s).
Final narrative
An employee was reaching for an item on a shelf in a storage room when she turned and tripped over the wheel of a portable dialysis machine. She fell to the floor and landed on her left kneecap, breaking it and requiring hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was walking into work from the parking lot. When she stepped off the curb and onto the street, her ankle rolled and she fell. The employee suffered an ankle fracture that required surgery.
An employee was walking across the department to get paperwork off the printer when they tripped over electrical cords, fell, and suffered a knee injury requiring surgery.
An employee was working on a vent on the roof. As they were changing a belt in an air handler system, their finger became pinched by the belt/pulley, resulting in a left ring finger amputation. The middle finger was injured as well.
An employee arrived at work and was walking into the store through the parking lot. The employee tripped over a curb and fell to the ground, sustaining a femur fracture.
An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.
A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.
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.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
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.