Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Ready One Industries, 1414 Ability Drive, EL PASO, TEXAS 79936
on — Fractures , affecting the Ankle(s).
Final narrative
An employee was climbing out of a dumpster and fell to the ground. The employee suffered a broken ankle.
Hospitalized Ankle(s) Tanks, bins, vats except confined space
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An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.
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.
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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.