Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at DILLARD'S, 7400 San Pedro #900, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78216
on — Fractures , affecting the Lower extremities unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee fell from a chair to the floor, suffering a broken right leg/ankle. She was hospitalized.
An employee was exiting the building and walking down the stairs with co-workers when she fell down the stairs and landed on her left hip, fracturing it.
An employee was helping to unload 20 to 30 pounds of beaded prom dresses from a trailer when they fell from a step stool to the floor of the trailer, resulting in a fractured wrist.
An employee was using a pike to move a pallet of sugar that was stuck in the powder racking. The employee fell backward, landing on his right leg. The employee's leg was fractured and he was hospitalized.
An employee was performing maintenance on a jammed roller belt in the back room and was working to free a jam on an overhead roller conveyor. The employee lost his balance on the conveyor and fell. He was hospitalized and required surgery for a fractured left leg.
An employee was throwing broken-down boxes into the dumpster when he fell backward and his head hit the ground, resulting in internal bleeding. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was checking an air conditioning unit that was not working after a power outage. While reaching around, he came into contact with an energized wire that shocked an area near his face. He fell to the ground and dislocated his shoulder. He was hospitalized.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 452111)
An employee was performing a pre-operation assessment of an electric pallet jack. The pallet jack activated and pinned the employee's left leg against a guardrail, breaking the tibia. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee fell to the floor in a store, suffering a broken right femur, a contusion and inflammation under the right eye, and a contusion and inflammation to her left wrist and forearm.
An employee was performing his regular duties and entered a cell to fix a case. He lost balance while removing tape from a case and subsequently tripped and fell near the mat conveyor. The employee sustained a fractured rib, pneumothorax, and cuts to his knees.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.