Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Performance Food Service, 4141 Lucius McCelvey Dr., TEMPLE, TEXAS 76504
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee fell while pushing a dolly, breaking his leg.
An employee was operating a riding pallet jack and making a turn toward a dock door when the pallet jack slid and struck a parked pallet jack, catching his foot between the two pallet jacks. The employee was hospitalized with a right foot fracture and required surgery.
On April 23, 2024, an employee was cranking down a trailer in the yard. The employee's hand slipped from the crank and it began to spin freely. It hit him on the right elbow and broke it. He was hospitalized.
An employee was moving pallet jack out of a charging station in order to put another jack in the charging station and struck metal racking. His right foot was pinned against the metal racking, causing a heel laceration.
An employee was walking behind the store with another associate to get paperwork from the delivery driver when she fell on the walkway and sustained a leg fracture that required surgery.
An employee was adjusting the forks on a forklift when a fork detached from the forklift. The employee jumped out of the way but fell on the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken hip.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was cleaning a steam kettle; he had the floor grate lifted to access the drain area. He tripped on the open floor grate, striking his knee against the steam kettle's drain pipe and falling onto multiple pieces of kitchen equipment. He landed on the floor, where he struck his head. He was hospitalized with lacerations to his ear, which required surgery to repair.
An employee was outside a freight elevator, reaching in, when the elevator moved and crushed her right hand. She suffered a broken arm and wrist and was hospitalized, requiring muscle surgery.
On September 29, 2025, an employee was removing a pan of pasta from the stove when the pan tipped over. Hot water contacted her legs and feet, resulting in burns to both feet that required hospitalization.
An employee was walking through a passageway sideways when the edge of her shoe got caught and she fell onto her right hip, resulting in a broken femoral head.
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.
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.
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.