Fractures

Name: Fractures at H-E-B Grocery Company, LP
Start: 1/29/2017

1 hospitalization · 2017010875 · 1/29/2017 · H-E-B Grocery Company, LP

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet
Source: Stairs, steps-indoors

Employer

Name: H-E-B Grocery Company, LP
Location: 943 William D Fitch Parkway, COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, 77845
NAICS: 445110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was trying to stabilize a leaning stacked pallet. He climbed the nearby roof access stairs and was reaching to straighten the pallet when he fell over the stair railing about 10 feet and landed on his back on the floor below. The employee was hospitalized for surgery to repair fractures to his back.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown