Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at The Meadows Psychiatric Center, 132 The Meadows Drive, CENTRE HALL, PENNSYLVANIA 16828
on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was walking from a parking lot to a building. While stepping from the lot to the sidewalk, the employee tripped over the curb, fell to the ground, and suffered a broken hip. The employee was hospitalized.
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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