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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc.

Other fall to lower level, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc., 1442 SR 436 Unit 1040, CASSELBERRY, FLORIDA 32707 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders.

An employee fell off a ladder landing on his back. The employee was hospitalized for injury to the ribs.

Hospitalized Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders Ladders, unspecified

Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc

An employee was entering a building when their left index finger got caught in the metal door, resulting in a laceration that required surgery.

Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc.

An employee was transferring a safe with a hand truck. While tilting the hand truck backwards, the safe door opened and fell backwards causing her left middle finger to be caught between the door and side of the safe. The employee suffered a fingertip amputation without bone loss.

Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc.

An employee was climbing a ladder and fell resulting in a head and shoulder injury.

Harbor Freight Tools USA, Inc.

An employee was standing in the warehouse removing freight from a trailer when merchandise fell on him, fracturing his L1 vertebra.

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Providence Place Cinemas 16 and IMAX

An employee was fixing ceiling tiles while working from a ladder when they fell to the floor and sustained a hip fracture.

DC Janitorial & Cleaning of Pensacola, Inc.

An employee was on an A-frame ladder retrieving materials from a shelf. He slipped and fell and his leg got caught in the ladder rungs, breaking his left tibia.

The Boldt Company

An employee was unloading materials from a flatbed trailer when they fell from the trailer and landed on the ground. The employee sustained a fractured left leg.

HD Supply Facilities Maintenance

An employee was unloading appliances at a customer location for delivery. The employee was moving a water heater to be placed on the liftgate when he stepped backward and fell to the ground. The employee sustained rib and back injuries.

Freedom Solar LLC

An employee was coming down a portable ladder when they slipped and fell to the ground, resulting in a right forearm fracture.

THE HOME DEPOT

An employee was backing up an electric pallet jack when it struck a yellow guardrail, pinning his ankle between the pallet jack and the guardrail. The employee suffered a crush injury to his left ankle and shin.

E&H Hardware Group, LLC

The injured employee was going to use an elevator to go upstairs. The elevator does not have a call button and is operated manually. The employee approached the elevator and used the elevator drop key located in the elevator key box to manually open the door. He then stepped forward into the elevator shaft. The elevator car was on another floor, resulting in the employee falling down the shaft from the first floor to the basement level. The employee was hospitalized with a sprained left hand and bilateral calcaneal fractures.

Ace Hardware Corporation

An employee was aligning a shipping offload conveyor. A component of the machine caught the employee's left middle finger, amputating it above the second knuckle.

Woody True Value

An employee was using a torch to burn off liquid petroleum gas from old 100-pound cylinders so they could be recycled. When he went to move a tank, some gas spilled onto the ground, then ignited in a flash that engulfed him. He was burned on the face, hands, and back and was hospitalized.

Lowe's Home Improvement

An employee was escorting a forklift inside a store. While walking backward, the employee tripped on a pallet and fell, suffering a broken hip.

DRIFTWOOD NURSERY & LANDSCAPING, INC

An employee was helping a coworker transport a tall palm tree with a mini skid steer. The employee was severely shocked by a high-voltage electrical wire above the ground.

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

An employee was retrieving a Christmas tree from a shelf using a ladder. He missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained injury to his head and wrist.

Envelope Seal Insulation, Inc

An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida

An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.

Air-flo/Erwood Heating & Air Conditioning

An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.