Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Durham School Services, 2202 S. Market St, ELIZABETHTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 17022
on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was walking through the yard to clock in for the day when he tripped over the base of a stanchion marking a walkway. The employee fell to the ground and sustained a broken hip.
A bus driver had returned to the yard and parked her bus. While walking to the building through wet and muddy grass, she fell to the ground and fractured her ankle. The injury required surgery to repair.
An employee was conducting a post-trip bus inspection when their pant leg was caught on the crossing arm of the school bus. The employee fell to the ground and sustained a right hip injury that required hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was stepping from a gravel parking lot onto a cement-paved sidewalk. She tripped and fell, suffering a concussion, a broken nose, and injured vertebrae. She was hospitalized.
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 finished her afternoon shift and was walking to her car on the gravel/dirt/grass walking surface. As she approached the exit gate, she tripped/stumbled and fell onto a nearby fence and the ground. The employee sustained fractures to collarbones or rotator cuffs on each side of her shoulder(s).
A maintenance employee was working on a bus at the maintenance shop when he tripped and fell on a wheel chock. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip and required surgery.
An employee was performing a pre-trip inspection of a bus. He was walking down the bus steps using the handrail when he slipped and fell, resulting in back injuries, internal bleeding, and a severe hematoma.
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.