Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Dell, 911 Covington Drive, DOWNINGTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 19335
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee walking through a parking lot to go to work slipped on ice and fractured his left leg.
An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.
An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.
An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 541519)
An employee was ascending an 8-foot ladder in the conference room when he fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a head injury, which required surgery.
An employee was halfway up a ladder removing ceiling tiles to run data cables. They fell from the ladder to the floor and sustained a compression fracture to their T12 vertebra.
An employee was throwing waste into an open dumpster located at a loading dock that was approximately 2 feet above ground. While putting a metal shipping bracket into the dumpster, the employee lost his balance and fell off the dock and onto the ground next to the dumpster, resulting in a fractured hip.
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.