Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker · Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at CVS , 12051 Tierra Este Rd, EL PASO, TEXAS 79938
on — Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was lifting a case of eight 1-gallon water jugs when the case fell on his right foot. Suffering from swelling (as well as what appeared to be an insect bite) on the foot, he was hospitalized.
An employee was walking to their car after work. They tripped over a concrete parking stop and fell in the parking lot. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion.
An employee was descending a staircase when they fell down the staircase from the top step and struck their head on the edge of a stair, requiring hospitalization for a head injury.
An employee was walking through a sales aisle when a customer stopped her to ask a question. She turned around and her head struck a structural column, resulting in a bruised forehead and two chipped front teeth.
An employee was inventorying products on the sales floor. The employee missed a step on a two-step stool while coming down and fell to the ground, sustaining a leg injury requiring hospitalization.
An employee was working while contractors were painting in the store and the employee suffered an asthma attack due to the paint. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was loading cardboard into a cardboard bailer to be compressed. The machine began to operate with the door open, and the employee's left hand was fractured.
An employee was walking to their car after work. They tripped over a concrete parking stop and fell in the parking lot. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion.
An employee was putting a box onto a cart when a handle on the box broke and the cart began to roll away from her. She lost her balance, fell with the box still in her hands, and broke her left hip. She was hospitalized.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
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.