WVU Medicine Hospitals

An employee was talking with a patient in the day area when they were attacked from behind by another patient. The employee was punched in the jaw and then lifted and slammed onto the floor. The employee sustained a fractured mandible and a laceration to the occipital region that required staples.

An employee tripped and fell while crossing a street from the parking garage into the building and suffered a torn right hamstring. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was walking to their car when they stepped off the sidewalk into mud, slipped and fell, resulting in a lower left leg injury.

An employee slipped on spilled laundry detergent and fell, suffering a broken right femur. She was hospitalized.

At about 4:50 p.m. on March 29, 2022, a mail carrier was leaving her truck when she slipped, fell, and hit her head on the sidewalk. The next morning, she woke up with a headache and bleeding from the ear and was hospitalized.

An employee was pulling wire out of a storage tube. The employee slipped on the wire and fell to the concrete floor, suffering a broken right femoral head.

An employee slipped on an accessibility ramp, fell, and suffered broken ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

An employee slipped on water in a hospital hallway, fell, and landed on his left hip. He suffered a contusion and fracture to the hip.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

An employee tripped over a concrete curb stop in a parking lot. The employee fell to the ground, landing on their left hip and breaking it.

An employee was conducting routine maintenance on a mixer. New lid pins had been installed, and the employee was rotating by hand to ensure they had been installed correctly. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the lid and top of a pin. The momentum from the mixer continued, causing a crushing injury to the finger. The employee underwent a medical amputation from the top knuckle to the tip of the finger.

An employee was climbing down a ladder when it slipped. The employee fell, suffering a broken scapula and broken ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was climbing down a 15-foot multipurpose ladder. The employee fell about 8 feet, landing on the concrete floor and the ladder itself. The employee suffered several injuries, all on the right side: broken ribs, a broken sternum, a broken temporal bone, broken shoulder, multiple fractures to the cheekbone, and a brain bleed.

An employee was rolling up the landing gear on his trailer when the handle began to unwind and struck his face, fracturing his jaw. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.