Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at National Security Agency, 840 Elkridge Landing Rd, LINTHICUM, MARYLAND 21090
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee fell down the last two or three steps of an exterior stair, suffering three factures to the left leg.
An employee was ascending a flight of stairs after exiting their vehicle in an adjacent employee parking lot. The employee stepped to the right to avoid another employee on the left who was descending the stairs. The employee lost their balance and fell on the stairs. They were hospitalized with a laceration/abrasion to their chin, a fractured left humerus, and bruising to their left knee.
The injured employee was assisting a co-worker in moving a wheeled cabinet through a door jamb. One of the cabinet's wheels malfunctioned and the cabinet tipped in towards the door frame. The injured employee was caught between the door frame and the cabinet resulting in a fractured right femur.
An employee was working next to an engraving machine when it caught fire. While he tried to extinguish the fire with a portable extinguisher, he was overcome by the smoke.
On March 3, 2018, an employee was going to his vehicle when he was struck in the eye by shattered plexiglass light globe debris during a wind storm. He suffered face and eye lacerations, requiring hospitalization.
An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.
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