Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Chicos FAS Inc., 935 Lehigh Valley Mall, WHITEHALL, PENNSYLVANIA 18052
on — Fractures , affecting the Trunk and other lower extremities.
Final narrative
An employee was climbing a ladder to get marketing materials. The employee slipped and fell from the ladder to the floor, sustaining fractures to their ribs and right tibia.
Hospitalized Trunk and other lower extremities Portable ladders and stairs unspecified
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