Injury by other person-unintentional or intent unknown, n.e.c. · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Baylor Medical Center, 3500 Gaston Ave., DALLAS, TEXAS 75246
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee was walking a patient in the ICU when the patient fainted and fell on the employee. The employee's leg was twisted, requiring surgery.
The injured employee tried to catch a co-worker who was having a seizure. Both employees fell to the floor and the injured employee sustained a broken hip.
An employee was cleaning the park and sweeping outside of the front gate. A guest bumped into the employee, causing her to fall and sustain a hip and wrist fracture.
An employee was near a co-worker who was standing on stacked milk crates stocking products. The co-worker began to fall and as the injured employee went to help, her co-worker fell on top of her. The injured employee was hospitalized with a hip fracture.
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.
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.