Health Network Laboratories

An employee was completing a sensor replacement on an air-cooled chiller unit and went to sit on a 5-gallon bucket during a rest break. He experienced sudden stiffness in his left knee, causing him to fall backward and strike his back on a pipe hanger. The employee sustained three broken vertebrae in their lower back.

An employee was sitting at their computer when they fell off their chair, resulting in an S4 compression fracture in their spine.

An employee was sitting on a tall teller chair in a bank drive-through. She leaned forward in the chair when it rolled out from under her. As she fell, a metal footstool that was positioned under the teller station was knocked over. The employee fell on top of the footstool and suffered a puncture wound on the right side of her abdomen from one of the metal legs on the footstool.

An employee fell out of a chair, resulting in an injured ankle that required surgery to repair.

A switchboard operator leaned back in her chair and the chair tipped over. She fell backward and struck her head on the floor, sustaining a subarachnoid bleed.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee knelt on their left knee to draw blood from the hand of a patient. She suffered a back injury involving a bulging disk and was hospitalized.

An employee ate an uncooked, company-provided chicken meal during lunch, developed a food-borne illness, and was hospitalized.

On April 3, 2025, an employee was pushing a heavy cart when the cart passed over a hole in the concrete floor and tipped over. The employee sustained hip fractures from the cart.

An employee was approaching a client's lockbox to pick up specimens. He tripped over the curb and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a broken left hip that required surgery.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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.