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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Geisinger Community Medical Center

Fall on same level due to tripping over self · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Geisinger Community Medical Center, 1800 Mulberry St., SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA 18508 on — Fractures, affecting the thigh(s).

An employee was walking into the hospital when he tripped and fell to the ground, fracturing his femur.

Hospitalized Thigh(s) Floor, n.e.c.

Geisinger Community Medical Center

An employee backed the shuttle bus into its assigned parking spot. The employee then opened the bus door and exited the vehicle, however, the vehicle was still in reverse. The bus continued to reverse and the bus door struck the employee, knocked him to the ground, and a tire ran over his right leg. The employee suffered a broken tibia and fibula and was admitted to the hospital for surgery.

Geisinger Community Medical Center

After exiting her car, an employee slipped on the ice in the employer's parking lot while walking to the hospital and broke her arm. She was hospitalized.

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Target Store #T1160

An employee was walking in a store when she tripped and fell to the floor. The employee sustained rib fractures.

TRIPLER MEDICAL CENTER

An employee was walking through a hallway when they tripped and fell to the ground, resulting in a fractured left hip and femur.

Wright Bros LLC

An employee was walking on a concrete patio near the work site when he tripped and fell on his right side resulting in a fractured right femur.

U.S. Postal Service

An employee was loading a vehicle for mail delivery when she turned, tripped, and fell in the parking lot. The employee struck their head on the pavement and suffered a concussion.

Cedar Community - Cedar Lake Campus

The injured employee had been talking with another employee. As they went to turn around and walk, they tripped and fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken hip.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

SIH Memorial Hospital of Carbondale

An employee slipped on water in a hospital hallway, fell, and landed on his left hip. He suffered a contusion and fracture to the hip.

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

Main Line Clinical Labs

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Ardent Mills

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.

Zimmerman & Herr

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.

McAneny Brothers, Inc.

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.

Metz Culinary Management LLC

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.