Fractures

Name: Fractures at VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Start: 1/23/2019

1 hospitalization · 2019010843 · 1/23/2019 · VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Lower leg(s)
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet
Source: Extension ladders
Secondary source: Floor, n.e.c.

Employer

Name: VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
Location: University Drive C, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, 15240
NAICS: 622110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee fell approximately 15 feet from a portable extension ladder to the cement floor in a chiller plant while attempting to attach a chain-fall onto nylon straps near the ceiling. He was hospitalized with a broken tibia plateau in his right leg.

Source

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