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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Wal-mart

Fall on same level due to slipping · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Wal-mart, 6410 I-45 , LA MARQUE, TEXAS 77568 on — Fractures, affecting the ankle(s).

An employee was walking down the aisle when she slipped on the wet floor and twisted her ankle. Her ankle began to swell immediately and was broken in two places. She also fell and hit her head on the floor.

Hospitalized Ankle(s) Floor, n.e.c.

Wal-Mart

An employee was throwing plastic trash into a large trash bag when her foot got caught on the bag, causing her to trip and fall. The employee sustained a broken wrist and a mouth injury.

WAL-MART

On October 11, 2020, the injured employee was directing a passenger vehicle into the service bay. The vehicle pinned the injured employee against a tire machine. The injured employee sustained a fractured lower left leg requiring hospitalization.

Wal-Mart

An employee was stepping off a ladder cart when she fell from the last step, landing on the tile/concrete floor and suffering a broken leg and possible broken hip.

Wal-Mart

An employee became faint while directing a queue outside. The employee was hospitalized, suffering from heat exhaustion.

Wal Mart

An employee was checking receipts when a customer punched him repeatedly in the face until he fell to the ground. He suffered broken facial bones.

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AT & T

An employee was stepping out of a car when they slipped and fell on ice, resulting in a femur fracture.

REYNOLDS FORD NORMAN

An employee was closing up for the weekend when they slipped on oil and brake fluid and fell. The employee suffered a leg fracture.

The Westervelt Company

An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.

The Wyndmoor of Marion (OH), LLC

An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.

U.S. Postal Service

An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.

Target

An employee was unloading a trailer when her shoelaces were caught in a conveyor wheel, causing her to trip and fall on her right knee. The knee was fractured and required surgery.

Walmart Distribution Center

An employee was driving a pallet jack when it stopped suddenly. The employee lost balance and fell to the ground fracturing the left hip.

Tuesday Morning, Inc.

An employee tripped and fell to the concrete floor, breaking a hip and requiring hospitalization.

Paradies

An employee was stepping off a shuttle bus onto the pavement when she slipped and fell, breaking her left ankle.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc

An employee was driving a forklift when the load contacted the overhead lighting, dislodging it from the overhead trusses. The employee then attempted to secure the lighting fixture to prevent it from falling. He used a scissor lift to access the light and was in the process of securing it when he touched the fixture, receiving an electric shock and burns to the left ring finger, as well as left arm numbness.

T G Meat Center LLC

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

Professional Flooring Supply

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

EnviroSafe Demil LLC

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

Inteplast Group

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

Regency IHS of Fairwinds Halletsville, LLC

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.