Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Citrus World, Inc., 20205 US Highway 27 North, LAKE WALES, FLORIDA 33853
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e).
Final narrative
Two employees got into a fight at a work station. The both went to the floor; one suffered a shoulder injury and was hospitalized.
HospitalizedShoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e)Acquaintance
An employee was walking into a filler room and started to step up on the threshold of the door but he slipped and fell, landing on his knee. He was hospitalized and required surgery for a broken left kneecap.
An employee was attempting to clear a jam on a filler machine when her right hand was pulled into the machine and pinched between the mandrel, resulting in lacerations and broken bones to the right hand.
An employee was standing in front of a palletizer when she was struck by a forklift, injuring both ankles and both feet. She then fell and lacerated the back of her head.
A store employee was pushed by a shoplifter into the frame of the entrance door to the store. The employee's head struck the doorframe resulting in head injuries and contusions on her hand and arm. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was making patient rounds at the hospital and stopped to talk with the charge nurse in front of the nurse's station. A patient reached over the nurse's station, grabbed a metal three-hole paper punch from over the desk, and proceeded to attack the employee with it. The employee sustained lacerations to the head and face, a fractured forearm, and a fractured little finger.
A teacher's assistant was attending to a student in the quiet room when they were pushed by another student. The employee fell to the floor and sustained a left hip fracture.
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An employee was putting a machine guard back onto a chain and sprocket when their left middle finger became caught in the chain and sprocket. The employee sustained an amputation of the fingertip.
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