Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Giorgio Fresh Co., 1340 Newark Road, TOUGHKENAMON, PENNSYLVANIA 19374
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the knee(s).
Final narrative
An employee was walking back to her work station. She tripped over the corner of a wooden pallet and fell to the ground sustaining injury to a knee and tendon.
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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.