Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at First Transit, 5555 Deauville Plaza Drive, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77092
on — Fractures, affecting the ankle(s).
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Final narrative
An employee had been driving a bus route. When the employee was off the bus, a passenger assaulted her. The employee was on the ground when the passenger fell onto the employee's left ankle, resulting in a fracture.
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.
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