Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Footlocker.com, Inc, 111 South 1st Avenue, WAUSAU, WISCONSIN 54401
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee leaving work tripped over a curb in the parking lot and fell breaking a leg.
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A nurse was visiting the home of a patient for requested treatment. She tripped on her gown while going up the steps to the property, falling and fracturing her left femur.
An employee was walking up an escalator that was out of service when they tripped on a step, fell, and suffered a closed fracture to the right femur as well as a dislocated right patella.
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