The Home Depot, Inc.

On October 30, 2024, an employee was removing a water-soaked ceiling tile while on a ladder. The tile fell out of the ceiling and the employee tried to get out of the way of the falling debris. He missed a step on the 6' ladder and fell to the floor. He struck his head and sustained an abrasion on his left arm and a rupture of his left patellar tendon.

On June 8, 2023, an employee was using his right hand to close the trifold liftgate of a box truck when his left little finger got caught between sections of the gate. The employee's left little finger was partially amputated.

An employee was driving a triple electric pallet jack, traveling northbound in the main drive aisle. A smaller electric pallet jack was traveling southbound on the opposite side of the drive aisle, which is separated by a pedestrian walking aisle. The employee turned toward the inbound side of the building prior to crossing the pedestrian walkway and entering the opposing drive aisle. The two pallet jacks collided. The employee was ejected from their pallet jack, fell to the floor, and her left leg was run over by the smaller pallet jack. The employee sustained crush injuries to the lower leg and foot that required amputation of the lower leg.

An employee was moving a pallet. When he swung the pallet to the floor, a protruding nail on the pallet cut his left forearm and hand. He suffered a broken left wrist.

An employee was operating a standup counter-balanced forklift and was traveling toward a unit of plank siding with the forks trailing. He tried to stop the lift using the dead man pedal. His right foot was crushed between the lift and the plank siding.

An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.

An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.

An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.

An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.

An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.

An employee was backing up an electric pallet jack when it struck a yellow guardrail, pinning his ankle between the pallet jack and the guardrail. The employee suffered a crush injury to his left ankle and shin.

The injured employee was going to use an elevator to go upstairs. The elevator does not have a call button and is operated manually. The employee approached the elevator and used the elevator drop key located in the elevator key box to manually open the door. He then stepped forward into the elevator shaft. The elevator car was on another floor, resulting in the employee falling down the shaft from the first floor to the basement level. The employee was hospitalized with a sprained left hand and bilateral calcaneal fractures.

An employee was aligning a shipping offload conveyor. A component of the machine caught the employee's left middle finger, amputating it above the second knuckle.

An employee was using a torch to burn off liquid petroleum gas from old 100-pound cylinders so they could be recycled. When he went to move a tank, some gas spilled onto the ground, then ignited in a flash that engulfed him. He was burned on the face, hands, and back and was hospitalized.

An employee was escorting a forklift inside a store. While walking backward, the employee tripped on a pallet and fell, suffering a broken hip.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.