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

Walgreens Co.

Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Walgreens Co., 1503 Metairie, METAIRIE, LOUISIANA 70005 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hip(s).

An employee descending a step-stool missed the last step, losing balance and falling to the floor. The employee suffered a possible broken hip.

Hospitalized Hip(s) Step ladders

Walgreens Co.

An employee was using a photo cutting trimmer board to trim photos and amputated their left thumb tip without bone loss.

Walgreens Co.

An employee was walking into the store when she slipped on ice in the parking lot. The employee was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle and a fractured leg that required surgery.

Walgreens Co.

An employee was bringing in the daily drop of newspapers from outside the sliding doors and fell, resulting in an elbow laceration and right hip fracture. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Walgreens Co.

An employee was stocking shelves when they fell off their step stool to the floor and fractured their ankle.

Walgreens Co.

An employee was walking on a concrete walkway when they tripped on a bump in the concrete and fell to the ground, resulting in a fractured and dislocated right shoulder.

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Petroleum Service Corporation

An employee was preparing a tank car for loading while chipping away solidified product in the manway opening of the tank car. A pressure noise within the tank car startled the employee, causing him to stumble backward and fall approximately 10 feet over the guard railing at the chemical loading rack to the ground. The employee suffered fractured vertebrae, a fractured right wrist and ankle, and a dislocated jaw.

Absolics Inc.

An employee was installing an electrical tray remover from a ladder. As he was descending, his missed a step and fell 6-7 feet to the floor. The employee suffered a head injury.

American Residential Products, Inc.

Two employees were installing spray foam insulation in the attic of a new residential construction. The injured employee fell 8 feet from an A-frame ladder to the floor. The employee suffered lacerations, abrasions, and a head injury.

Berkheimer Maintenance

An employee was on a raised platform attaching wires to electrical boxes. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to the floor below and struck an exit sign on the way down, resulting in an injury to his face.

High-Tec Industrial Services, Inc.

An employee was in a forklift man basket fixing a garage door opener when they fell approximately 8 feet to the concrete ground below. The employee suffered head and back injuries as well as kidney bruising.

Walgreens

An employee was working at a register when she tripped on a scanner cord and fell, resulting in hospitalization for a hip fracture.

CVS Albany LLC

An employee was loading cardboard into a cardboard bailer to be compressed. The machine began to operate with the door open, and the employee's left hand was fractured.

CVS

An employee was walking to their car after work. They tripped over a concrete parking stop and fell in the parking lot. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion.

Hallmark Marketing, Inc.

An employee was putting a box onto a cart when a handle on the box broke and the cart began to roll away from her. She lost her balance, fell with the box still in her hands, and broke her left hip. She was hospitalized.

Walgreens Co.

An employee was using a photo cutting trimmer board to trim photos and amputated their left thumb tip without bone loss.

Kisatchie Midnight Express

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

Jean Simpson Personnel Services, Inc.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

Calvary Industries Inc

An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.