Fractures

Name: Fractures at H-E-B Grocery Company, LP
Start: 1/14/2018

1 hospitalization · 2018010440 · 1/14/2018 · H-E-B Grocery Company, LP

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Other fall to lower level, unspecified
Source: Movable ladders, unspecified
Secondary source: Limbs, branches-unattached

Employer

Name: H-E-B Grocery Company, LP
Location: 1301 Guadalupe St., LAREDO, TEXAS, 78040
NAICS: 445110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was on a ladder cutting a tree branch with an electric saw when the branch swung and struck the ladder, causing him to fall to the ground and strike his head on the concrete curb. He suffered a head injury, sprained right shoulder, and broken neck vertebrae.

Source

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