Despite broken bones and head trauma, no 9-1-1 call after worker injured in fall
While grocery shopping, OSHA inspector sees same fall hazards at another location
When an employee of a Market Basket store in Rindge, MA fell 11 feet to a concrete floor and sustained broken bones and head trauma, store management didn't call 9-1-1. Instead, the injured worker was lifted from the floor, placed in a wheelchair and pushed to the store's receiving dock, where he waited for a relative to take him to the hospital.
That incident prompted an OSHA inspection that ultimately involved two different Market Basket locations -- after an OSHA supervisor who was grocery shopping at a Market Basket in Concord noticed the same type of fall hazards there.