Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Jefferson Regional Medical Center, 565 Coal Valley Road, JEFFERSON HILLS, PENNSYLVANIA 15025
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified.
Final narrative
Three employees were moving a patient. The patient fell and one of the employees sustained a back injury requiring hospitalization.
HospitalizedBack, including spine, spinal cord, unspecifiedPatient
More severe injuries at Jefferson Regional Medical Center
An employee was preparing to mix floor stripping product. The undiluted product spilled, then seeped into the employee's shoes. The employee suffered second- and third-degree chemical burns to the feet.
An employee was responding to a request for assistance for a sick patient in a cardiac rehab outpatient unit. The employee was running to get towels when the employee's knee struck a bench. The employee then fell backwards incurring additional injuries. The result was a fracture of the left tibia plateau, requiring hospitalization and surgery.
An employee completed a shift during which she moved patient beds and stretchers. While at home, the employee experienced back pain and went to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with spinal fractures.
An employee was lifting and carrying a heavy box. After putting the box down, the employee had back pain and weakness in their left leg. They were hospitalized, having suffered a back sprain.
An employee was working on the wharf recouping lumber boards (2x4s and 2x6s that can vary from 8' to 16' in length) from bundles that had become misplaced when they sustained a right rotator cuff tear requiring hospitalization.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 622110)
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.
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.