Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Leeds World, Inc., 115 Hunt Valley Road, NEW KENSINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA 15068
on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was waiting in line to clock out at the end of the shift when he was bumped by another employee and startled. This caused the employee to take a step to the left where his foot caught the edge of the pallet and he fell to the floor. The employee sustained a hip fracture.
An employee arrived at work and was walking into the store through the parking lot. The employee tripped over a curb and fell to the ground, sustaining a femur fracture.
An employee was preparing to change the pallets on a screen printing machine. She stepped between the arms of the machine when the machine re-energized, turned, and struck her, pushing her into a mobile cart and causing her to fall to the ground. The employee suffered suffered five fractured ribs, difficulty breathing, and internal bleeding.
An employee used a cart with a ladder attached to pull items from a shelf. The employee stepped back and tripped over either the track or the knuckle on the end of the aisle, fell back and landed on her hip, fracturing her femur.
An employee was attempting to fix a piece of vinyl that was inside a cutter machine. The employee's left arm was caught in the machine's roller, resulting in a broken arm.
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.