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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Sears, Roebuck and Co.

Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Sears, Roebuck and Co., 9505 Colerain Avenue, CINCINNATI, OHIO 45251 on — Fractures, affecting the thigh(s).

While walking to the mattress department for a customer service call, an employee tripped over ripples in the carpet and suffered a broken left femur, requiring surgery.

Hospitalized Thigh(s) Floor irregularity

Sears, Roebuck and Co.

An employee was working in the mattress department when she tripped on the wheel of a mattress frame and fractured her right hip.

Sears Roebuck and Co.

An employee slipped on hot floor wax while lifting boxes, receiving third degree burns to the upper back and shoulder.

Sears, Roebuck and Co.

An employee was in the process of washing the floor when he was splashed on the legs by floor stripper which resulted in chemical burns and possible nerve damage.

Sears, Roebuck and Co.

An employee followed a suspected shoplifter out of the store and into a parking lot. The employee started taking pictures of the suspect's car as the suspect was pulling away. The suspect hit the employee with the car breaking the employee's left leg.

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U.S. Postal Service

An employee was walking to a customer's door to deliver a package when they tripped on uneven pavement and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a hip fracture.

Nordstrom

An employee was leaving work for the day when he tripped over mulch and fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with a fractured hip.

4M Building Solutions

An employee was walking on the sidewalk toward the front entrance of the building to start her work shift. She tripped over uneven pavement and fell onto the concrete sidewalk. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip and a sprained left knee.

Spirit Aerosystems, Inc.

An employee was walking into work through a doorway when she tripped on the door sill and fell to the floor, fracturing her humerus.

Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity

An employee was leaving for lunch. The wheel of her knee scooter struck a divot in the floor which caused her to fall into a metal rack. The employee sustained a broken right shoulder.

Walmart

An employee tripped over a chair in the break room and fell, resulting in lower back pain. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured vertebra.

Walmart, Inc.

An employee was performing a pre-operation assessment of an electric pallet jack. The pallet jack activated and pinned the employee's left leg against a guardrail, breaking the tibia. The employee was hospitalized.

Target Corporation Store #1196

An employee was standing on a pallet when their foot caught on the pallet and they fell to the concrete floor, resulting in a fractured right femur.

DILLARD'S

An employee fell from a chair to the floor, suffering a broken right leg/ankle. She was hospitalized.

Penney OpCo LLC dba JC Penney

An employee fell to the floor in a store, suffering a broken right femur, a contusion and inflammation under the right eye, and a contusion and inflammation to her left wrist and forearm.

United States Postal Service

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

Foundation Steel, LLC

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

GXO Logistics

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

Abbott Electric Inc

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

American Electric Power Company

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.