Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at OMNI RESORT, 1500 MASTERS BLVD., CHAMPIONS GATE, FLORIDA 33896
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the multiple body parts, n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee was walking through a landscape bed (bushes and mulch) to enter a building. The employee tripped on a curb/lip at the edge of a sidewalk and fell. The employee sustained face/forehead and knee injuries.
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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