Fall while sitting · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Texas Health Resources, 6200 W. Parker Road, PLANO, TEXAS 75093
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee had been standing and giving a presentation. When finished, he went to sit down in a chair but the chair rolled out from under him. The employee fell to the floor, sustained a left hip injury, and was hospitalized.
An employee was on the roof surface to reset the chiller of the air conditioner. He slipped and fell on the wet surface. The employee sustained several fractures on the right side of his body including the pelvis.
An employee was walking back to the building after her lunch break when she stepped on a crack near the entrance. The employee fell and sustained a right femur fracture.
On May 24, 2023, an employee was in a patient's room providing respiratory therapy. The employee tripped between an IV pump and a vital signs machine, fell to the floor, and suffered a broken right tibia and a dislocated patella.
An employee was completing a sensor replacement on an air-cooled chiller unit and went to sit on a 5-gallon bucket during a rest break. He experienced sudden stiffness in his left knee, causing him to fall backward and strike his back on a pipe hanger. The employee sustained three broken vertebrae in their lower back.
An employee was sitting on a tall teller chair in a bank drive-through. She leaned forward in the chair when it rolled out from under her. As she fell, a metal footstool that was positioned under the teller station was knocked over. The employee fell on top of the footstool and suffered a puncture wound on the right side of her abdomen from one of the metal legs on the footstool.
A switchboard operator leaned back in her chair and the chair tipped over. She fell backward and struck her head on the floor, sustaining a subarachnoid bleed.
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