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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

North American Lighting, Inc.

Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at North American Lighting, Inc., 100 Counts Drive, MUSCLE SHOALS, ALABAMA 35661 on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).

An employee was walking around the press and tripped on a floor mat falling forward and landing on his right hip. The employee was hospitalized with a right hip fracture.

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

North American Lighting, Inc.

An employee was retrieving empty plastic totes from a material storage area. The totes weighed 7.5 pounds and measured 15 inches in width, 24 inches in length, and 7 inches in height. The employee tripped over conveyor rails and fell on his left side onto the concrete floor, resulting in hospitalization with a ruptured quadricep tendon in his right knee.

North American Lighting, Inc.

On July 22, 2024, at approximately 11:15 AM, an employee was moving an air conditioning unit on the roof when their right middle finger became caught between the bottom of the unit's frame and the roof curb frame. The employee sustained an amputation to the fingertip.

North American Lighting, Inc.

On July 18, 2024, at 1:09 a.m. in the receiving dock area an employee was pushing a trash can toward the compactor as a forklift was operating in reverse. The forklift struck the employee's left foot causing three toe fractures, including an open fracture of the big toe. The injured employee was hospitalized.

North American Lighting, Inc.

At about 3:00 a.m. on November 14, 2020, an employee was checking a molding machine containing seized-up material. As he opened the machine's door and looked down, the molding material gassed off and blew into his face. He suffered facial burns, as well as splatters on the neck and hands, and was hospitalized,

North American Lighting, Inc.

An employee walked to the back of the assembly line to sign off on the completion of the fail-safe process. When they were returning to the front side of the assembly line, the employee stepped inside the frame of a finished goods cart and tripped, striking their head and right shoulder against the cart and the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a head laceration and a dislocated right shoulder.

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Walmart Stores 4686

An employee was going to the breakroom when they tripped over a chair and fell, resulting in a hip fracture.

Walgreens Co.

An employee arrived at work and was walking into the store through the parking lot. The employee tripped over a curb and fell to the ground, sustaining a femur fracture.

TJX Companies / TMaxx

An employee tripped over a box and fell to the floor, fracturing their right arm.

HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital

An employee was preparing for a CT scan when she tripped over a loose strap and fell to the floor, fracturing her hip.

GERELCO ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS

While walking back to a truck from a work area, an employee slipped on loose rocks, fell, and suffered a back injury.

Stanley Electric U.S. Co., Inc

An employee was leaving her work station. As she was walking away, she tripped over a cart rail and fell, resulting in contusions and lacerations to both knees, a dislocated finger, and a severe laceration to the palm of her right hand. The employee was hospitalized.

Osram Sylvania Inc.

An employee was troubleshooting a blister pack machine that packs bulbs into blister cards for distribution. The employee was attempting to free stuck blister cups when the transfer head of the machine came up to grab the next cups and caught the employee's middle fingers. The employee suffered an amputation of the left middle fingertip and a partial de-gloving to the right middle fingertip.

GERELCO ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS

An employee had been moving materials outdoors throughout the day and sustained heat exhaustion.

SL Alabama, LLC

A temporary employee was shot in the stomach and left elbow by another temporary employee. The employee was hospitalized.

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.