Other jump to lower level, unspecified · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Gamestop, 625 Westport Parkway, GRAPEVINE, TEXAS 76051
on — Fractures, affecting the elbow(s).
Final narrative
An employee was on a ladder putting up a poster on a glass front. The ladder started to slip. He jumped off, landed on his arm, and suffered a broken elbow.
On 12/23/2017, an employee was in front of the store hanging a banner while standing on a 6-foot ladder. He was then descending the ladder when it tipped sideways. He fell onto the sidewalk, fracturing his left tibia, fibula, wrist, and elbow. He was hospitalized.
An employee was crossing over a sorting belt and jumped down onto the catwalk next to the belt. The employee sustained a right ankle fracture and dislocation.
On November 7, 2023, at 6:00 PM, an employee was getting off a roof at the end of the work day. He missed a step and then jumped from the ladder to the ground sustaining a fractured ankle.
An employee was on the table of a machine. She went to jump down from the table and fractured her lower leg on the ground. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was loading a flatbed trailer when a forklift bumped into the trailer. A wheelset began to roll in his direction and the employee jumped off the trailer to avoid it. The wheelset caught him on the leg and he landed on his shoulder on the ground. He sustained a laceration below the left kneecap and a dislocated shoulder.
An employee was walking through a parking lot to his car while servicing a customer when he slipped and fell on ice, resulting in a fractures to their elbow and knee.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.