Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-08-28 | Parkersburg | Wv | Kohl's | Forehead | Fall on same level due to tripping over self |
An employee was walking to the back of a store when she tripped and fell to the ground, resulting in a laceration to her forehead and pain in her wrist. She was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-09-13 | Parkersburg | Wv | Panhandle Cleaning & Restoration, Inc | Multiple body parts | Fall from collapsing structure or equipment 16 to 20 feet |
An employee was using a lift to access a work platform to conduct work on an exhaust fan. As the employee stepped from the lift basket onto the work platform, the platform collapsed and the employee fell 16 feet to the concrete floor below. The employee sustained a fractured left hip, two left rib fractures, a fractured left arm, and a fractured left orbital bone. | |||||
2020-01-18 | Parkersburg | West Virgini | Kohl's Department Store | Wrist(s) | Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs |
An employee tripped on a curb and fell to the ground while walking into work, breaking the left wrist. | |||||
2018-08-11 | Parkersburg | West Virgini | O'Reilly Auto Enterprises LLC | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode |
On August 11, 2018, at approximately 7:30 a.m., an employee was stocking product. He was holding an alternator part in his left hand and reaching for a part with his right arm when he suffered a right shoulder fracture. | |||||
2017-07-19 | Parkersburg | West Virgini | U.S. Postal Service | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
On July 19, 2017, at approximately 2:00 p.m., an employee experienced dizziness, cramping, and nausea, during the delivery of mail on his route. The employee was hospitalized for acute kidney failure and heat exhaustion. The heat index at the time of the incident was 90 degrees. | |||||
2016-05-25 | Parkersburg | West Virgini | Concepts West | Leg(s) | Caught between rolling powered vehicle and other object |
An employee was operating a fork truck to transport a box to a stage in front of a box dumper. When he dismounted the fork truck and walked in front of the load, the truck moved forward and pinned him between the box dumper and fork truck forks, fracturing his lower left leg. | |||||
2016-05-23 | Parkersburg | West Virgini | Camden Clark Memorial Hospital | Lower leg(s) | Fall on same level |
An employee fell in the parking lot while walking to work and fractured the right tibia and fibula. | |||||
2015-04-21 | Parkersburg | West Virgini | Camden Clark Medical Center | Brain | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface |
On 4-21-15 an employee was walking into the rear entrance of Medical Office Building B when the employee's shoe got caught on the pavement and the employee fell striking his/her face on the sidewalk. The employee was admitted to the hospital for a sub-arachnoid hemorrhage. |