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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

MOUNT VERNON, OHIO—

Global Compression Systems

Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Fractures

Final narrative

An employee was walking in a shipping area. On the floor was a 68-inch piston rod to be boxed and shipped out. One end of the rod was propped up on a 5-inch tall box with a protruding piston nut installed on this raised end. Adjacent to the raised piston end was another box containing a part ready to be shipped. The employee stepped around this boxed part with her right foot and then, while attempting to step over the raised end of the 68-inch piston with her left foot, caught her left boot toe on the protruding nut, causing her to trip and fall to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured left humerus.

Hospitalized Upper arm(s) Floor, n.e.c.

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