Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak - Stewart PC, 420 20th Street North (Ship Tower) Suite 1900, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA 35203
on — Fractures, affecting the thigh(s).
Final narrative
An employee was walking inside when she fell on the floor and broke her femur.
An employee was walking behind the store with another associate to get paperwork from the delivery driver when she fell on the walkway and sustained a leg fracture that required surgery.
An employee was adjusting the forks on a forklift when a fork detached from the forklift. The employee jumped out of the way but fell on the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken hip.
An employee was walking up the front steps of a building when she slipped and struck her head on a step. The employee was hospitalized with a scalp hematoma, encephalopathy, and a hip injury.
The employee shut off a steam valve and was descending a ladder to enter a berth pit and open the cargo line valve. He slipped during the descent causing his right foot to be submerged in the hot water inside the dock pit. Hot water entered his right boot resulting in burns to his right foot/ankle.
An employee was on a set of movable metal steps when boxes on a dolly below him fell and struck the steps, knocking them out from under him. The employee fell on the steps and was hospitalized with a collapsed lung and multiple rib fractures on his right side.
On 9/28/2020, an employee fell from a ladder while reaching to perform ceiling work and injured his hip. The injury did not require medical treatment. On 10/04/2020, the same employee reinjured his hip while moving a couch and was hospitalized for treatment.
An employee was returning to her work area within the office using crutches. Her crutch slipped on a tiled portion of the floor. The employee caught herself from falling with the leg that had the pre-existing injury. She was hospitalized for muscle trauma to the upper right leg.
An employee was traveling down the maintenance aisle of a warehouse on a single-pallet front rider jack. The jack malfunctioned, causing the brakes to apply; the employee fell forward onto the concrete warehouse floor. The employee suffered an injury to the left leg and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
An employee was operating a metal roller machine to roll a small piece of metal. The employee's right index finger became caught between the metal and the machine, and the fingertip was amputated.
An employee was directing a truck driver to a dump site when the truck's peanut trailer slipped off the kingpin. As the trailer fell, a ladder attached to it lacerated the employee's ear. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was unloading a forklift from a trailer to the ground. The employee was climbing down the ladder of the trailer when their foot slipped through one of the rungs, causing them to fall backward onto the forklift forks. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs.