Fractures

Name: Fractures at Walmart Supercenter #2505
Start: 1/29/2020

1 hospitalization · 2020010974 · 1/29/2020 · Walmart Supercenter #2505

Severity

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

Cause

Event: Fall on same level due to tripping over an object
Source: Floor, n.e.c.
Secondary source: Boxes, crates, cartons

Employer

Name: Walmart Supercenter #2505
Location: 5501 Highway 6, MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS, 77459
NAICS: 445110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was putting merchandise on a mobile cart. As he was taking laundry baskets out of a box to put them on the cart, the cart moved and he tripped over one of the boxes and fell to the ground, breaking his left hip. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

Source

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