The Meadows at Stroud for Nursing and Rehabilitation LLC
Contact with hot objects or substances · Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at The Meadows at Stroud for Nursing and Rehabilitation LLC , 221 East Brown St., EAST STROUDSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 18301
on — Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was transferring a hot steam well inside the kitchen when she tripped and dropped the hot steam well and hot water on her foot. She suffered burns to her left foot and was hospitalized.
HospitalizedFoot (feet), unspecifiedWater
More severe injuries at The Meadows at Stroud for Nursing and Rehabilitation LLC
Two employees were in an outdoor break area when they got into a physical altercation. The injured employee hit her head on a brick wall, resulting in a concussion and hospitalization.
An employee connected a steam line to a hose to clean equipment when the fitting broke loose. They were struck by steam in the left inner thigh, resulting in burns that required hospitalization.
An employee was making tea when she noticed tea grinds were collecting on the side and water was no longer dripping through the funnel. The employee was checking the funnel when boiling water and tea grinds spilled onto the left side of her body. The employee sustained burns to her neck, back, and arm.
An employee had turned off the ball valve on a waterpipe system and was removing the plug when the coupling system attached to the strainer came apart. Hot water sprayed on his arm and back, resulting in first- and second-degree burns that required surgery.
An employee was using a shovel to remove waste vermiculite from molten zinc. The metal had been placed in a bin and partially hardened. The employee broke through the partially hardened metal; still-molten metal flowed to the employee's steel-toed right boot and entered through the cloth boot tongue. The employee suffered a third-degree burn to the right foot and was hospitalized.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 623110)
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.
An employee tripped and fell while walking to a time clock. She suffered fractures to her left shoulder and right kneecap. She was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was walking down the hall in front of the therapy room when she tripped and fell, striking her right hip on the tile floor. The employee sustained a fractured hip and required surgery.
A nurse was heading to a carpeted hall from the tiled floor of the nurses station and tripped over the transition. She fell and landed on her knee. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured femur.
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.