Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at The Moore Company, 36 Beach Street, WESTERLY, RHODE ISLAND 02891
on — Fractures , affecting the Thigh(s).
Final narrative
An employee was working in a storage area consolidating pallets of yarn when his shoelace got caught on the corner of a pallet. The employee lost his balance and fell to the floor, resulting in a right femur fracture in the hip area.
An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.
The injured employee was standing behind a table. She jumped out to scare another employee, but tripped and fell on the tile floor, injuring her right ankle/foot. She was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle that required surgery.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.
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An employee was helping to unclog a packaging machine when their fingers got caught in the machine, resulting in partial amputations to the index, middle, and ring fingers on the right hand. The machine was energized at the time.
On January 15, 2020, an employee was working at a welding machine and holding the tarp as it came out of the machine. As the machine began to cut the tarp, the employee attempted to cut the corner of the tarp with scissors. The machine's blade then contacted his finger, resulting in a partial amputation of the left fifth digit.
An employee was preparing the dock plate for a forklift to unload a shipment of rolls inside a shipping container. The rolls of fabric inside the container shifted and rolled onto the employee breaking a leg(s).
An employee was talking to a child on the playground, when the child grabbed her hand to lead her away. The employee stepped, lost her balance, and fell over. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture of her lower left leg and required surgery.
An employee was walking through a parking garage. She tripped over a curb and fell forward onto her right knee, then her left knee, both hands, and her face. She suffered an injury to the left knee that required surgery, as well as scrapes on the chin and both palms and soreness in the left wrist.
An employee was using a hose to clear storm drains after a sewer backup. The employee fell backward and his head struck the curb, resulting in an Injury on the right side of his head, generalized bruising, and pain in his left ankle, right hip, left shoulder, and neck. The employee was hospitalized.