Fall while sitting · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at MATTRESS FIRM INC, 5885 San Felipe Rd. Ste 600, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77057
on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was sitting in a chair by the desk. As he adjusted it, it slipped out from under him and he fell on his side/hip. He was hospitalized, having suffered a hip injury.
An employee was stepping down from an order picker when they tripped over the forks of another electric pallet jack that was parked nearby and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a displaced pilon fracture to their left tibia.
An employee was tipping plastic recyclable materials from a rolling cart into a dumpster when their right middle finger was caught between the cart and the dumpster. The distal end of the finger was amputated.
An employee was attempting to pull a mattress off a third-tier rack shelf when he fell to the concrete floor, suffering head trauma and loss of feeling. Fall protection was not worn at the time of the incident.
An employee was completing a sensor replacement on an air-cooled chiller unit and went to sit on a 5-gallon bucket during a rest break. He experienced sudden stiffness in his left knee, causing him to fall backward and strike his back on a pipe hanger. The employee sustained three broken vertebrae in their lower back.
An employee was sitting on a tall teller chair in a bank drive-through. She leaned forward in the chair when it rolled out from under her. As she fell, a metal footstool that was positioned under the teller station was knocked over. The employee fell on top of the footstool and suffered a puncture wound on the right side of her abdomen from one of the metal legs on the footstool.
A switchboard operator leaned back in her chair and the chair tipped over. She fell backward and struck her head on the floor, sustaining a subarachnoid bleed.
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