Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Champaign Residential Services, Inc., 325 Tibet Road, COLUMBUS, OHIO 43202
on — Intracranial injuries, unspecified, affecting the brain.
Final narrative
An employee was ascending stairs outside a home. She fell and hit her head on the ground, losing consciousness and suffering head and mouth injuries.
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More severe injuries at Champaign Residential Services, Inc.
An employee was walking up the sidewalk to go up two steps into a building to visit clients. She tripped on the uneven sidewalk and fell up the steps, resulting in a broken ankle that required hospitalization.
An employee was walking to their truck to look for a lid. When they stepped between the truck and a dock plate, they sustained a knee injury that required surgery.
An employee was standing on plant bed timbers, using a powered hand trimmer to trim the shrubs in the plant bed. The timber gave way, breaking into several pieces. The employee lost balance and fell with the trimmer in his hand. He suffered a severe laceration to the right wrist and hand.
An employee was loading phosphoric acid onto a rail car and preparing to secure the rail car for transport. While repositioning the loadout spout to secure it back to the drip pan holster on the dock, the spout contacted the handrail of the rail car, causing the employee to lose balance. The employee stepped back and their right foot entered the opening for the rail car, causing him to twist/pivot on his left leg. The employee's lower left leg was fractured.
On November 14, 2023, an employee was receiving a delivery from a truck when some of the merchandise fell from the truck s lift and struck him. He then fell to the ground and his head struck the sidewalk, resulting in an injury that required hospitalization.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 623210)
An employee was hanging streamers in the warehouse for a party. The employee fell from the second rung of a ladder to the cement floor 2.5 feet below, suffering a broken right ankle.
An employee was walking up the sidewalk to go up two steps into a building to visit clients. She tripped on the uneven sidewalk and fell up the steps, resulting in a broken ankle that required hospitalization.
The injured employee was assisting with removing a metal pole used for a basketball hoop. Employees had cut down the pole to almost ground level. They put a tow rope around the remaining pole and hooked it to the hitch of a pickup truck to pull it out of the ground. The injured employee was standing by the pole to guide the rope. When the pole came out of the ground, it swung up and struck the injured employee on the left side above his waist and the right side of his head. He was knocked to the ground and his left calf was scraped. The injured employee was hospitalized with a fractured rib and lacerations. He required surgery.
Employees were working to block a client from eloping. The client and employees were running down the hall when the client pushed the injured employee, causing her to fall and slide into a steel doorframe. The employee sustained an injury to her left arm/shoulder.
An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.
An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.
On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.
An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.
An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.