Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Sedexo, Tulane University 6823 St. Charles Ave., NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70130
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
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Final narrative
An employee was helping to retrieve a set of keys from a client's floor safe, which was being temporarily stored on the loading dock pending disposal by the client. As a co-worker opened the safe, it became unbalanced and tilted forward. The safe's door struck the concrete floor and dislodged from its hinges. The employee grabbed the safe and attempted to keep it upright so his co-worker could move out of harm's way. The door fell on the employee's right leg causing a compound fracture.
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