Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Fresenius Medical Care, 543 Chesapeake Rd, FAIRMONT, WEST VIRGINIA 26554
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was using a hand cart to deliver supplies to a patient's home. The employee was bringing in the final load on the cart when they slipped on ice and fell. The hand cart fell on them, resulting in a fractured right leg.
An employee had just changed out a filter on the water treatment system. As he was putting the water treatment system back online, the stand that the filter sits on cracked and shifted, causing the filter to come down on and break his left arm.
An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.
An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.
An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.
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