Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at KidsPeace, 8th Avenue & Hay Road, TEMPLE, PENNSYLVANIA 19560
on — Fractures, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee tripped over a ladder, resulting in a fractured right foot.
An employee was standing in the hallway when a client came running down the hall and knocked the employee to the ground. The client also punched the employee's face. The employee suffered fractures to the fourth and fifth vertebrae.
An employee arrived at work and was walking into the store through the parking lot. The employee tripped over a curb and fell to the ground, sustaining a femur fracture.
An employee was transferring a pot of hot water and noodles from the stovetop to the sink in the kitchen. The employee fell and their leg was burned by the hot water.
An employee was coming into the facility to bring a note when they tripped on a carpeted mat and fell forward, hitting their head on the tiled floor. The employee sustained a subdural hematoma and a head injury requiring 30 sutures. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was leaving a client's home when they slipped on black ice in front of the home, falling to the ground and suffering cranial fractures and a brain bleed.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.