Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Club Demonstration Services, Inc., 17701 Evans Street, OMAHA, NEBRASKA 68116
on — Fractures , affecting the Hip joint(s).
Final narrative
An employee was returning to their workstation when they tripped over a customer's child and fell to the concrete floor on their left hip. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip.
Hospitalized Hip joint(s) Other constructed surface
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The injured employee went to retrieve additional supplies for the sample carts or to check the sample cart status. As she was walking to the various carts positioned throughout the store, a customer backed out of an aisle and impacted her, knocking her off balance and causing her to land on her hip on the concrete floor. The employee sustained a right hip fracture.
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