Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities

Industry Summary

With employment in this industry reaching new highs, the 625,713 businesses operating in the Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities industry are sure to make protecting the estimated total of 1,526,045 employees reported in 2015 a top priority. With OSHA reported accident rates of less than that of the the Individual and Family Services Industry as a whole, things have been relatively safe over the past five years.

• Most Common Violations
• Recent Accident Reports

On Wednesday, August 24th 2016 OSHA reps took a report of a serious accident in Maryland Heights, MO at Missouri Mentor. A employee working as a was injured on the job when the stabbing, cutting, slashing, piercing

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OSHA IDSevere Injury Report

Accident Date2016-08-19

Accident DegreeInjury

NarrativeAn employee was working with a client in his home when the client stabbed the employee in the back. The employee was hospitalized.

OSHA investigators arrived in NAPLES, FL on Sunday, December 6th 2015 and began an accident investigation after learning of an incident at Brookdale Naples which had occured on the same day. A had been injured when the exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue

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OSHA IDSevere Injury Report

Accident Date2015-12-06

Accident DegreeInjury

NarrativeAn employee was cleaning tables when she touched fish juice on a dish. She could not breathe and was hospitalized for a food allergy.

OSHA investigators arrived in MORGANTOWN, WE on Monday, August 10th 2015 and began an accident investigation at West Virginias Choice, Inc.. A employee working as a was injured on the job when the other fall to lower level, unspecified

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OSHA IDSevere Injury Report

Accident Date2015-08-10

Accident DegreeInjury

NarrativeAn employee tripped while going down the stairs and fell down approximately 16 steps resulting in a separated shoulder, broken ribs, elbow and ankle.