Big Lots Inc.

An employee was driving a forklift to put away pallets. After offloading a pallet, he made a wide left turn to head into another building. The lift overturned and made contact with a guardrail, pinning the employee's left leg against the rail and resulting in an injury to his femur.

An employee was making a turn while driving a dock truck when it collided with the fork of a parked dock truck, resulting in a broken left ankle.

An employee was doing maintenance on a wall-mounted exhaust fan. The metal fan blade struck the employee, lacerating the employee's right elbow.

An employee was helping a coworker transport a box sofa to a customer's car with a four-wheel dolly when he tripped on the dolly wheel and fell to the parking lot surface. He injured the left side of his body and suffered a bulging lumbar disc, requiring hospitalization.

An employee was performing preventive maintenance on the conveyor motor and amputated the tips of the right thumb and index fingers.

An employee was collecting trash when they were struck by a rolling utility trailer. The employee sustained a right ankle fracture.

An employee was unrigging steel when an 8-inch by 50-foot, 4,875-pound piece of steel rolled onto their left leg, resulting in a fracture.

An employee was connecting a dolly to a trailer. The equipment rolled away, causing the employee's left index finger to be crushed between the trailer and the dolly. The employee sustained amputation of the fingertip.

On October 17, 2023, at 9:55 p.m., an employee was working on a ramp while moving merchandise from a cargo loader to a dolly. The employee was putting the locks on the dolly and transferring a unit load device containing packages when she realized the lock was in the down position. As she attempted to fix the lock, the unit load device started moving toward the dolly, and the employee became wedged between the dolly and the device. The employee suffered an injury to her lower left leg.

Two employees were shaking out steel beams and standing them vertically. One beam was hit, causing the other beams to fall. A beam then rolled over an employee's left shin and fractured it. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was walking to take their break. As they walked from their locker to the entrance of the break lounge, they tripped over a pallet and fell to the ground, resulting in hospitalization due to a concussion.

An employee was working at a processing table and pivoted to place merchandise on a shelf. She tripped on the leg of the table and sustained fractures in her foot.

An employee was working to fix the forks on a forklift when the fork(s) fell on her toes. The second and third toes on her right foot were fractured, lacerated, and required stitches.

An employee was involved in a physical altercation with two temporary employees. The employee was hospitalized with facial injuries and required surgery.

An employee went to lift a carton and tripped on a different carton that was on the floor. She fell on the floor in the backroom and sustained a fractured right hip, and abrasions to her arm and knee. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.