Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Bacharach, Inc., 621 Hunt Valley Circle, NEW KENSINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA 15068
on — Fractures, affecting the multiple body parts, n.e.c..
Final narrative
An employee fell while trying to sit down in a chair, landing on the floor and suffering a broken right arm and hip. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
HospitalizedMultiple body parts, n.e.c.Floor, unspecified
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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