Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at United Health Group/Optum RX, 900 East Kings Street, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA 17602
on — Fractures, affecting the knee(s).
Final narrative
An employee was walking down the hallway when they slipped on a liquid and fell to the floor. The employee sustained a right patella fracture that required surgery.
An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.
An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.
An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 524298)
An employee was on a roof at a client site and fell through a skylight onto the metal car lift below the skylight. The employee suffered a fractured left leg, a left orbital fracture, and lacerations on the forehead and chin requiring stitches.
An employee was taping fiber cable against a pole. A truck was making a wide turn; its trailer caught the employee's pant leg, dragged him against the pole, and pinned him against it. He suffered fractures.
An employee spent the work day inspecting roofs in high temperatures. At the end of the day he felt exhausted, and was hospitalized for possible heat-related illness.
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.