105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Dollar General

Nonclassifiable · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Dollar General, 4101 Lake Shore Drive, BESSEMER, ALABAMA 35022 on — Fractures, affecting the ankle(s).

An employee fractured his left ankle while working with a forklift.

Hospitalized Ankle(s) Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

Dollar General

On January 7, 2025, at approximately 11:18 AM, an employee was operating a retainer carrier (RTC) to pick merchandise. He exited the RTC and was then struck by the RTC. His right leg was pinned between the rack and the RTC. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to the right calf.

Dollar General

An employee was using a pocketknife to open a tote of merchandise. The knife slipped and lacerated the employee's left wrist.

Dollar General

An employee was returning merchandise to a shelf in an aisle. The employee tripped over a stool and fell to the ground, suffering an injury to the right hip.

Dollar General

An employee was driving a double pallet jack down an aisle when another piece of equipment came through the aisle. Realizing that the two pieces of equipment were about to collide, the employee jumped off the pallet jack. It then ran over his leg, breaking his leg/ankle.

Dollar General

On November 18, 2023, at 6:07 p.m., an employee was walking out to the parking lot when he was struck by a truck and knocked to the ground. The employee suffered a broken leg and ankle that required hospitalization and surgery.

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Target Corporation

An employee was unloading a truck when he experienced pain. He was hospitalized with a hernia.

Westlund Excavating LLC

An employee was cutting pipe when they sustained a laceration to the face. The employee was hospitalized.

Hader-Seitz, Inc.

An employee suffered two fingertip amputations while working at a plant.

Rivian Automotive, LLC

On September 25, 2023, an employee was working in the body department installing doors, hoods, and tailgates. The employee finished their shift and was hospitalized later that evening for a back injury.

Mid-City Electric Co

An employee was operating a scissor lift and fractured their right ankle.

Dollar Tree

An employee was on a step ladder in a store aisle, making room on shelving for merchandise. She fell from the step ladder to the floor, suffering two fractures in her left leg. She was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Dept. of Defense - AAFES

An employee was on a 6-foot A-frame ladder, working to replace ceiling tiles. They fell to the ground and sustained fractures to their hip and femur. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Farm & Fleet of Morton

An employee was walking backward with a pallet jack loaded with cases of toys. When the employee went to stop the pallet jack, it rolled over his right foot. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured distal tibia and a torn tendon in his foot that required surgery.

Dolgencorp LLC

An employee was operating a rolling container carrier (RTC) vehicle in pedestrian mode. When he operated the hand lever to turn it, the RTC pinned his left leg against the pick location. The employee suffered a laceration on his left knee and was hospitalized.

Walmart, Inc., Store 5398

An employee was walking in a dispense area when she tripped over a pallet and fell to the ground, resulting in a broken left hip that required hospitalization and surgery.

Sysco Gulf Coast, LLC

An employee was traveling down the maintenance aisle of a warehouse on a single-pallet front rider jack. The jack malfunctioned, causing the brakes to apply; the employee fell forward onto the concrete warehouse floor. The employee suffered an injury to the left leg and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Norflex, Inc.

An employee was operating a metal roller machine to roll a small piece of metal. The employee's right index finger became caught between the metal and the machine, and the fingertip was amputated.

Ampler Pizza II LLC

An employee was shot in the leg with a pistol during an altercation with two people who had entered the store without permission.

Birdsong Corporation

An employee was directing a truck driver to a dump site when the truck's peanut trailer slipped off the kingpin. As the trailer fell, a ladder attached to it lacerated the employee's ear. The employee was hospitalized.

Pilgrims

An employee was unloading a forklift from a trailer to the ground. The employee was climbing down the ladder of the trailer when their foot slipped through one of the rungs, causing them to fall backward onto the forklift forks. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs.