Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Hobby Lobby, 421 North Randall Road, BATAVIA, ILLINOIS 60510
on — Fractures, affecting the thigh(s).
Final narrative
An employee was stocking shelves. As she was stepping down from an A-frame ladder, she missed the last rung, causing her to fall. The employee sustained a femur fracture and a head contusion.
An employee was standing on a metal folding chair in the breakroom to access to a posted schedule. They lost their footing and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured right shoulder.
An employee was walking on the concrete floor when she tripped over a furniture pad on the floor and fell, injuring her right arm and fracturing her right hip. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was descending a ladder after stocking product on a shelf. The employee missed the last step from the bottom and fell to the concrete floor, resulting in a left knee injury.
An employee was on a ladder while retrieving stocked goods from a top shelf when she fell from the bottom rung of the ladder to the cement floor, resulting in a right hip injury that required hospitalization.
An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.
An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.
An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.
An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.
An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 423920)
An employee was standing on a single-step stool to arrange merchandise on top of a shelf when the stool slipped out from under them. The employee fell to the floor and suffered a broken left femur.
A contracted temporary employee was operating a golf cart to conduct a security and fire watch at a facility. While operating the golf cart, the employee struck a stairwell, resulting in a fractured leg that required hospitalization.
An employee was on a ladder while retrieving stocked goods from a top shelf when she fell from the bottom rung of the ladder to the cement floor, resulting in a right hip injury that required hospitalization.
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.