Contact with other person while providing medical or custodial care · Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at WellSpan Adams Health Center, 40 V-Twin Drive, GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17325
on — Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified, affecting the Knee(s).
Final narrative
An employee was assisting a patient while walking. The patient began to fall and the employee attempted to stop the patient's fall. The employee fell and sustained a left knee injury.
On September 2, 2025, at 10:00 AM, an employee was assisting a patient when they grabbed onto the employee and pulled her down. The employee was hospitalized with a back injury.
An employee was working with an uncooperative patient when the patient fell onto their arm. The employee sustained two fractures to their arm and required surgery.
An employee was helping a patient return to their bed when the patient fell backward onto the employee, landing on her right leg. The employee suffered a closed fracture of the right tibial plateau.
An employee was on her way to a private residence after responding to a house call. She tripped over an uneven sidewalk and fell, resulting in a fractured patella in her right knee and a fractured left humerus in her shoulder.
An employee was handing another employee a piece of paper while working in a lab. The employee tripped on a chair and tried to hold onto a wall. She slipped and fell, suffering a broken left arm and dislocated shoulder.
An employee was leaving at the end of their shift when they tripped over a parking bollard that was missing the top half. They fell to the ground and fractured their hip. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was leaving work and stepping off a curb when their shoe caught on the curb and they fell to the gravel ground, resulting in a fractured knee and a torn ligament.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.