Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Orthodontic Specialist of Dallas, 7859 Walnut Hill, DALLAS, TEXAS 75230
on — Fractures, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was sitting at a computer workstation when she stood up to walk and her foot became tangled in the hoses and cords to the chairside handpieces. When she went to step to her right, her foot was snagged on the hoses and she fell forward, breaking her arm.
An employee arrived at work and was walking into the store through the parking lot. The employee tripped over a curb and fell to the ground, sustaining a femur fracture.
The office had just closed, and an employee was finishing at her desk. A vendor arrived to perform their services. The employee unlocked the door for the vendor and proceeded to walk backward away from the door while talking to the vendor. She fell backward and landed on her hip. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip.
An employee was performing dental cleaning on a patient when she tripped and fell to the floor, landing on her left knee. She was hospitalized with a fractured knee that required surgery.
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An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
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.