Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at SP PLUS CORPORATION, 200 E RANDOLPH ST, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60601
on — Concussions, affecting the brain.
Final narrative
An employee was involved in a physical altercation with an aggravated customer. The employee suffered a concussion.
An employee was working as a valet at a parking garage. A customer who was waiting for his vehicle walked into the valet booth and punched the employee's chest, resulting in collapsed lungs.
An employee was walking down a parking garage entrance ramp when they tripped and fell at the bottom of the ramp, resulting in a fractured elbow and an inability to bear weight on their leg.
An employee was walking from the north entrance in a parking garage toward the west entrance to assist a customer. A customer's car entered the north entrance and struck the employee on the right side of her body resulting in a fractured right tibia.
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.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 812930)
An employee was dropping customers off with a shuttle. He stepped out of the shuttle and his foot entered a pothole, causing him to twist his ankle and then fall to the ground. The employee sustained multiple dislocations to the ankle requiring surgery.
An employee was walking back to the valet podium after parking a car. The employee went to climb over the chain next to the walkway, tripped, and fell to the concrete ground, resulting in a broken leg.
An employee was walking through the front door when her foot became caught on a rug and she fell. The employee was hospitalized with injuries to her right elbow and right hip, and she required surgery.
The injured employee was loading luggage at the rear of a shuttle when a second shuttle that parked directly behind them began rolling and then accelerated. The injured employee was pinned between the two shuttles and sustained soft tissue damage and a fractured femur that required surgery.
An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.
An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.