Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Lehigh Valley Health Network, 1200 South Cedar Crest Blvd., ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 18103
on — Fractures , affecting the Upper arm(s).
Final narrative
An employee was rising from a chair when their foot caught on the chair, causing them to fall to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a displaced fracture of the right humerus.
An employee was walking on a sidewalk, heading toward her car, when she tripped and fell onto her left hip. The employee sustained a left intertrochanteric fracture requiring hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was working as a security guard. A trespasser had entered the hospital and was confronted by the police. A physical altercation occurred and the trespasser was inadvertently pushed into the employee causing them to fall to the ground and strike their head on the ground. The employee sustained a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
An employee was working at her desk. She went to stand up and fell to the floor beside the desk. The employee sustained a hip displacement and required surgery.
A doctor was sitting on a rolling stool when it moved out from under him. He fell, landed on his left hip, and suffered a broken left femur. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
An employee went to sit on a chair when it rolled out from under her, causing her to fall to the floor and strike her head. The employee was hospitalized with a closed fracture to a thoracic vertebra.
An employee was validating receipts at the drive thru at the bank. While reaching for the validator, the employee slipped out of her chair, striking the back of her head on the concrete floor. The employee sustained trauma to her head.
An employee had been sitting at a desk. While standing up from the desk, her feet became caught in a wire that was under the desk, causing her to fall out of her chair. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis and was hospitalized.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 622110)
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.
A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.
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.