Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at CHAMBERSBURG HOSPITAL, 112 NORTH 7TH STREET, CHAMBERSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17201
on — Convulsions, seizures, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.
Final narrative
An employee fell to the floor while working in the family birthing unit and was hospitalized with a possible seizure and bruising.
While working in an emergency department, an employee had an anaphylactic reaction to an unknown substance, suffering respiratory distress and swelling. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was exposed to mold and moisture while working and began to experience coughing and tightness in the chest, requiring hospitalization for pneumonia and exacerbation of asthma.
On September 25, 2023, an employee was working in the body department installing doors, hoods, and tailgates. The employee finished their shift and was hospitalized later that evening for a back injury.
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.
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.