Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode · Other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Geisinger, 174 Buckaroo Lane, BELLEFONTE, PENNSYLVANIA 16823
on — Other respiratory system symptoms-toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.
Final narrative
An employee suffered an asthma attack while checking in a clinic patient who was wearing perfume.
An employee was passing through a building when she suffered an allergic reaction to a cinnamon air freshener. The employee began to feel dizzy and ill, ultimately becoming unresponsive. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee wearing a blasting hood was preparing to blast inside a tank. The line that supplies the hood with breathing air was plugged into an argon line. The employee breathed the argon gas and fell. The employee was hospitalized for argon poisoning.
An employee was preparing a pump for maintenance. When the employee removed a cover, chemicals were released into the air. The employee was exposed to hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan and was hospitalized.
An employee collected rags in a housekeeping closet. They were finishing up their shift and traversing to a locker room with a wheeled garbage cart. The employee fell to the floor and struck their right hip. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip.
An employee was getting up from her chair when she twisted her left ankle and then injured her right foot while falling. The employee was hospitalized with a closed displaced trimalleolar fracture of the right ankle.
An employee was setting chains to secure a concrete barrier to a front-end loader. The chain became twisted and lost slack. The concrete barricade fell on the employee's left foot, causing a partial amputation to a toe.
On December 2, 2024, an employee was exiting a patient room while her foot was entangled in the wires of a sonograph machine and she fell to the floor. The employee sustained a non-displaced fracture to her left femoral neck.
An employee was cleaning a daily room. She walked in and took trash out from the trash can. She then took a step back and her right shoe got stuck/stayed gripped on the floor, causing her to fall on her right side. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right hip and required surgery for her right wrist.
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.