Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Centura Health, 7700 S. Broadway, LITTLETON, COLORADO 80122
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee fell in a parking lot while cleaning snow off her car, breaking her leg.
An employee was trying to remove a manhole cover on a wastewater pit. The cover slipped off a pry bar and caught the employee's finger against the edge of its recess. The employee's fingertip was amputated at the first knuckle.
While walking to her car at the end of the day an employee's left foot slipped off the sidewalk and landed in the parking lot, causing her to lose balance and fall face first onto the sidewalk. The employee sustained a broken nose, facial fracture, concussion, and contusions.
An employee was walking from a parking lot to a walkway. The employee slipped on the icy curb/walkway and fell to the ground, suffering a broken fibula and left elbow.
An employee slipped on ice while walking across a parking lot to a personal vehicle. The employee fell to the ground, suffering a broken upper right femur.
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.
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.
An employee was cleaning a steam kettle; he had the floor grate lifted to access the drain area. He tripped on the open floor grate, striking his knee against the steam kettle's drain pipe and falling onto multiple pieces of kitchen equipment. He landed on the floor, where he struck his head. He was hospitalized with lacerations to his ear, which required surgery to repair.
An employee was outside a freight elevator, reaching in, when the elevator moved and crushed her right hand. She suffered a broken arm and wrist and was hospitalized, requiring muscle surgery.
On September 29, 2025, an employee was removing a pan of pasta from the stove when the pan tipped over. Hot water contacted her legs and feet, resulting in burns to both feet that required hospitalization.
An employee was walking through a passageway sideways when the edge of her shoe got caught and she fell onto her right hip, resulting in a broken femoral head.
An employee was delivering materials. He was doing his pre-delivery inspection on the roof of the jobsite (a warehouse) when he fell through a plexiglass skylight. He landed on his feet on the concrete floor 14 feet below. The employee sustained fractures to his spine, left ulnar/radius, and right heel. The employee required surgery.
An employee was removing packaging from a roll of printing substrate. The blade of their utility knife got stuck. The employee used both hands to free the knife and the blade partially amputated their left little fingertip.
A concrete batch plant operator was assisting with clearing spoil piles using a skid steer. The skid steer backed into a stationary screen plant. The employee's left little finger was crushed between the controls of the skid steer and the screen plant, resulting in a fracture and laceration. The employee's finger was surgically amputated.
An employee was standing on an extension ladder, using a torquing tool to remove bolts that secured blades to a rotor. When the torquing tool activated, its reaction arm came around and pinched the employee's right middle finger against a lifting eye. His fingertip was amputated.