Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Community Action Partnership of Lancaster County, 601 South Queen Street, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA 17603
on — Intracranial injuries, unspecified, affecting the brain.
Final narrative
An employee was attacked by a resident at a domestic violence shelter. The employee suffered a closed head injury and bruising to other parts of the body, caused by an impact with a stair railing.
A store employee was pushed by a shoplifter into the frame of the entrance door to the store. The employee's head struck the doorframe resulting in head injuries and contusions on her hand and arm. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was making patient rounds at the hospital and stopped to talk with the charge nurse in front of the nurse's station. A patient reached over the nurse's station, grabbed a metal three-hole paper punch from over the desk, and proceeded to attack the employee with it. The employee sustained lacerations to the head and face, a fractured forearm, and a fractured little finger.
A teacher's assistant was attending to a student in the quiet room when they were pushed by another student. The employee fell to the floor and sustained a left hip fracture.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 813319)
An employee was driving a forklift when she struck a steel I-beam and struck her head on the steering wheel, resulting in a forehead laceration. The employee was hospitalized and required stitches.
An employee was leaving for lunch. The wheel of her knee scooter struck a divot in the floor which caused her to fall into a metal rack. The employee sustained a broken right shoulder.
An employee was working on a ladder over a playground stage. The employee fell from the ladder to the stage; he was hospitalized with eight broken ribs and a concussion.
An employee was running after a soccer ball to kick it back into play for children she was watching. She stepped on or tripped over the ball, suffering an ankle injury that required surgery.
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.