Lancaster General Hospital

An employee fell to the ground while dismounting the back of a truck. The employee landed on his side and sustained fractured ribs.

An employee tripped over a pillow and fell to the floor fracturing her right hip.

An employee suffered asthma exacerbation after using scented hand lotion, requiring hospitalization for respiratory distress.

Employees were participating in team building exercises at the sports complex. An employee was climbing a wall when she lost her grip and fell 20 feet. She broke both heels and her thumb, requiring surgery.

Employee was walking to car when leaving work and slipped and fell on ice in company parking lot. Employee suffered a broken leg.

An employee had been speaking on phone with a hostile client. The employee experienced chest pain and was hospitalized for a heart attack.

An employee provided CPR during a medical emergency. The recipient died, and the employee went into shock.

An employee had been dealing with a trespasser and had the police onsite. She also had a verbal altercation with a vendor. The employee then suffered cardiac distress.

An employee was verbally harassed by a client and experienced extreme heart palpitations and a spike in blood pressure, requiring hospitalization.

An employee felt ill after a fatality occurred in the workplace, requiring hospitalization for a possible heart problem.

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck 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.

An employee slipped on water in a hospital hallway, fell, and landed on his left hip. He suffered a contusion and fracture to the hip.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

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.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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.