Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at InVision Human Services, 10842 Martin Drive, IRWIN, PENNSYLVANIA 15642
on — Fractures, affecting the thigh(s).
Final narrative
An employee slipped on snow-covered grass and fell, breaking his right femur.
An employee was using a ladder to try to enter a window that led to an office that had inadvertently been locked with the keys to the door left inside. The employee fell off the ladder from the third or fourth rung, sustaining broken vertebrae.
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.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 624120)
On September 10, 2025, an employee was walking up a wooden wheelchair ramp to a back door at a customer's home when she slipped/tripped on a rug and fell into a wall, hitting her shoulder and elbow. She then fell to the ground, resulting in a fractured hip that required hospitalization.
An employee was getting up off a couch as a client was aggressive. The client kicked the employee, causing him to fall over the arm of the couch and land on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip.
An employee was raking leaves at a client's house when they fell down an embankment. The employee landed on the ground and sustained a head/brain injury, a fractured shoulder, and a fractured pelvis.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.