SALINA, KANSAS—
Blue Beacon, Inc.
Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feet · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Blue Beacon, Inc., 500 Graves Boulevard, SALINA, KANSAS 67401 on — Fractures , affecting the Arm(s) unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was walking down a flight of stairs when she tripped at a landing and fell, landing nine stairs below. She suffered two broken arms (one of them a spiral fracture) and was hospitalized.
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