Atlantic Health System

An employee was checking for a kitten under a car that was on a car jack. The car fell off the jack and the employee sustained broken ribs and a compression fracture.

An employee fell on the floor when her sneaker stuck to the floor while walking into the building. The employee suffered a fractured right arm.

Two employees were repositioning a patient in bed when one of them suffered a back injury.

An employee was helping a patient walk at the patient's residence. The patient started to fall and the therapist got her arm caught and broken between the patient and a wheelchair.

An employee was using an industrial-size table saw to cut a piece of recycled wood when the saw hit a nail in the wood and propelled the nail into the employee's forearm. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

An employee lost his footing while climbing an inclined ladder. He stumbled down one step and was able to stabilize himself by holding the railing and twisting his body, but he suffered an internal abdominal injury and was hospitalized.

An employee was climbing a ladder to inspect the roof of a church when the ladder slipped and the employee fell. He went to grab the rain gutter along the eave to break his fall when his right hand contacted a sharp edge on the gutter, resulting in a laceration to the right-hand fingers that required hospitalization.

An employee was performing preventive maintenance activities that included cleaning coils on a turbine oil cooler. The employee used a 6-foot step ladder to access the mid-flange area, where he stood to access the oil cooler, apply silicon in-between the flanges, and bolt up the flanges. As he was standing on the side of the cooler, he fell from a height of less than 4 feet but managed to catch himself during the fall. In doing so, his left triceps contacted the threads of an existing stud that secured the top cover, resulting in a puncture wound that required hospitalization.

An employee was preparing a commercial jet-liner to be repainted. He had accessed the wing via a scissor lift, and was standing on a flap over an aft wing box, at a height of approximately 15 feet. His harness was on, and he was hooked up to the scissor lift yoyo. He slipped off the top of the wing and fell approximately 6 feet, making contact with the plane and scissor lift, resulting in a fractured left femur.

An employee was descending a fixed ladder into a block house to perform maintenance on a snow-making system. His foot slipped and his heel struck a pipe (part of the snow-making system) behind him. The employee fell partially down the ladder before he stopped himself from falling further and another employee helped him out of the space. The employee suffered a broken right tibia and fibula.

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

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.

An employee slipped on water in a hospital hallway, fell, and landed on his left hip. He suffered a contusion and fracture to the hip.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

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 tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.