Evolution Hospitality LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Jul 20, 2017: Employee trips and falls to the ground while walking across

At 7:15 a.m. on July 20, 2017, an employee was walking on a flat ground before tripping and falling to the ground. The employee fractured his knee when it struck the ground. The employee was hospitalized.

Incident on Jul 26, 2013: Employee trips and falls and fractures kneecap

At approximately 12:15 p.m. on July 26, 2013, Employee #1 was working as a food server for a hotel restaurant and had walked into the kitchen area to get an ite m from the dry storage pantry. As she entered through the pantry's doorway, she tripped over an extension cord in the doorway. The cord was connected to an outl et in the nearby wall. Employee #1 fell onto a tile floor and suffered a right k nee injury. A coworker placed the cord through the doorway to provide power for a commercial heated food cabinet called a hot box. According to the executive ch ef and other employees, four or more of these mobile units were set against a wa ll in the aisle outside of the dry storage pantry. There were only two available electrical outlets along this wall. The extension cord was approximately 9-ft l ong and started from the outlet inside of the room and ran across the doorway en trance area and through the doorway to the aisle and the wall, where the cabinet s were located. She did not notice the coiled electrical cord until she looked a round from the floor after she fell. Employee #1 was taken to a medical center, where she was admitted and underwent surgery for a fractured right patella. Afte r the surgery, she was hospitalized for postoperative care and then released thr ee days later.