Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at The TJX Companies, Inc., 1650 Northeast Miami Gardens Drive, NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA 33179
on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
An employee was on a step stool stocking merchandise when they fell and sustained a hip fracture that required surgery.
An employee was unloading a trailer. Cartons of goods fell and struck the employee, who fell down. Cartons of goods (45 pounds each) then fell onto the employee, who suffered a compression fracture to a lower-back vertebra. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was repositioning merchandise after the floor was stripped and waxed when they slipped on uncured wax and fell to the floor. The employee sustained a fractured right femur.
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.
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