U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

An employee was walking under a section of scaffold when he tripped over one of the scaffold bars around the base. He landed on his hip on top of a small piece of metal grating, which had a toeboard installed around a small opening. The employee fractured the femoral head on his right hip and was hospitalized.

An employee was walking to their car after work. They tripped over a concrete parking stop and fell in the parking lot. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion.

An employee went to kick a piece of plastic garbage out of the walkway on the sales floor and his shoe got caught on the floor. He fell on his left hip. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery for a fractured hip.

A temporary employee exited a patient room and was walking toward the nurse station. As she turned right, her foot slipped on a recently mopped floor, causing her to fall. She landed partially in the doorway of the dictation room and partially in the hallway. She struck the ground with her right arm and shoulder. She experienced numbness and sustained a gash above her left eye that required stitches. She was hospitalized with a dislocated and fractured right shoulder that required surgery, a dislocated right elbow, and injuries to her head and neck.

An employee was running in the hallway when they lost their footing, tripped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a head injury.