Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Lincoln College of Technology, 2915 Alouette Drive, GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS 75052
on — Fractures, affecting the face, unspecified.
Final narrative
An education supervisor went to talk with a student in the automotive shop. The student punched the employee and knocked him to the ground. The student then picked up a metal plate from the alignment machine and struck the employee at least twice in the face. The employee sustained broken bones in his face and a shoulder injury.
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 611210)
An employee went into her office, retrieved something, and was leaving to go to a meeting. She tripped on the carpet, fell over her carrying case, and hurt her right side, back and leg. She was admitted to the hospital for surgery on her leg.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.