Slip, trip, stumble while stepping between levels · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at First Student, Inc., 3333 Keystone Drive, OMAHA, NEBRASKA 68134
on — Fractures , affecting the Hip joint(s).
Final narrative
An employee was exiting the school bus via the service door steps into the employee parking lot. They stepped on several pieces of broken asphalt, lost their footing, and fell to the paved parking lot. Their left arm went in between the tire and the body of the vehicle as they fell to the ground. They sustained a broken left hip that required surgery.
An employee was helping to repair the bumper of a school bus. As a piece of wood was being used to bend the bumper, the wood struck the employee, resulting in swelling and a hematoma in their abdominal area.
An employee was emptying propane from a school bus to perform maintenance when the propane caught fire. The employee sustained first, second- and third-degree burns throughout 40% of their body.
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 dropping customers off with a shuttle. He stepped out of the shuttle and his foot entered a pothole, causing him to twist his ankle and then fall to the ground. The employee sustained multiple dislocations to the ankle requiring surgery.
An employee was approximately 5 feet up on a ladder while drilling a hole for cable installation. A wasp attacked him. As he was coming down the ladder, he landed flat on his feet on the ground, and his right leg was twisted. The employee sustained a fractured tibia.
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