Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Club Demonstration Services, Inc., Club Demonstration Serivces / Costco 1235, ORLANDO, FLORIDA 32839
on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was trying to open a heavy walk-in cooler door. Her hand slipped off the handle and she fell on her side, breaking her hip.
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More severe injuries at Club Demonstration Services, Inc.
The injured employee went to retrieve additional supplies for the sample carts or to check the sample cart status. As she was walking to the various carts positioned throughout the store, a customer backed out of an aisle and impacted her, knocking her off balance and causing her to land on her hip on the concrete floor. The employee sustained a right hip fracture.
An employee was returning to their workstation when they tripped over a customer's child and fell to the concrete floor on their left hip. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip.
An employee was performing a product demonstration near the meat department. While stepping to the right, he tripped and fell, landing on his right side on the concrete floor. He suffered a broken hip and was hospitalized.
An employee was gathering supplies in the office to display samples of food for customers when they bumped into another employee and fell to the concrete floor, resulting in broken ribs.
An employee was walking behind the store with another associate to get paperwork from the delivery driver when she fell on the walkway and sustained a leg fracture that required surgery.
An employee was adjusting the forks on a forklift when a fork detached from the forklift. The employee jumped out of the way but fell on the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken hip.
On 1/19/15, an employee was placing items in the freezer when the employee began to see spots in the left eye and then lost vision in that eye. Employee was hospitalized overnight.
An employee was helping a coworker transport a tall palm tree with a mini skid steer. The employee was severely shocked by a high-voltage electrical wire above the ground.
An employee was retrieving a Christmas tree from a shelf using a ladder. He missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained injury to his head and wrist.
An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.
An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.