Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at The TJX Companies, 1401 South Federal Highway, POMPANO BEACH, FLORIDA 33060
on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee attempted to sit on a shoe bench when she contacted the edge of the bench and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured hip.
Two forklifts were traveling in the same direction. The operator of the first forklift realized he had gone too far and stopped to turn around. When he started to turn, one of the forks struck the employee who was operating the second forklift in the left foot, causing a possible fracture to the foot/toe.
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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