Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at WB Mason, 158 Country Club Drive, ORADELL, NEW JERSEY 07649
on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was meeting a prospective client with her sales manager at the prospective client's residence. Upon entering the home, the employee missed a step on the stairs leading to the foyer and fell, fracturing her right hip and requiring surgery.
A nurse was visiting the home of a patient for requested treatment. She tripped on her gown while going up the steps to the property, falling and fracturing her left femur.
An employee was walking up an escalator that was out of service when they tripped on a step, fell, and suffered a closed fracture to the right femur as well as a dislocated right patella.
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