NEW CANEY, TEXAS—
Olameter Corporation LLC
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Sprains, strains, minor tears
Final narrative
An employee was manually reading the electric meters at an abandoned home. He was walking back to his vehicle through overgrown vegetation and household debris when he stepped in a hole, twisted his left knee, and fell to the ground. As he got up and tried to walk, his right knee twisted as well and he fell a second time. The employee sustained a torn left quadricep tendon and a torn right patellar tendon requiring hospitalization and surgery.
Similar incidents · Same event type
JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY—
JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER
An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.
ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY—
APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH
An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.
VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI—
Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
The injured employee was standing behind a table. She jumped out to scare another employee, but tripped and fell on the tile floor, injuring her right ankle/foot. She was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle that required surgery.
HALLETTSVILLE, TEXAS—
Regency IHS of Fairwinds Halletsville, LLC
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.
BERKELEY SPRINGS, WEST VIRGINIA—
Caperton Furniture Works, LLC
An employee tripped over a concrete curb stop in a parking lot. The employee fell to the ground, landing on their left hip and breaking it.