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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Best Buy

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Best Buy, 1801 Hempstead Road, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA 17601 on — Fractures, affecting the knee(s).

On April 13, 2017, at 2:30 p.m. an employee missed the last rung of the A-frame ladder that he was descending and fell on his right kneecap, shattering it. The employee was hospitalized for surgery to stabilize his knee.

Hospitalized Knee(s) Step ladders

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An employee was walking past a pallet of televisions when the televisions fell on her head and injured her head, neck, and left shoulder.

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An employee was repairing a microwave at a customer's residence when he suffered an electrical shock, which caused burns to both his hands.

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An employee was standing on a ladder, mounting a television 10 feet up on a wall. He fell from the ladder to the floor, suffering shoulder and left arm injuries.

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An employee was on a mobile ladder installing speaker wire. The ladder shifted and the employee fell about 10 feet, suffering a head laceration, a broken leg, and a broken arm.

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An employee had been doing custom wiring installation. The employee had felt ill for three days. After finishing work on the third day, the employee was hospitalized for dehydration and kidney failure possibly due to heat exposure.

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Electrical Contractors Inc.

An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.

M1 Support Services

An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.

FEDEX Ground Package System, Inc.

An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.

SRM Concrete

An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.

U.S. Postal Service - Los Angeles P&DC

An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.

Lowes Home Center, LLC

An employee was loading 55 bags of mulch in a trailer when he slipped off the trailer to the ground and broke a bone in his right shoulder.

Best Buy Co., Inc.

Two employees were loading appliances into a delivery truck using a 2-wheeler/dolly. One employee was helping push a refrigerator while the other employee pulled it towards the dolly. The refrigerator fell on one of the employee's lower extremities and mid-section, causing the employee to fall on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured T7 vertebra.

Home Depot #380

An employee was moving freight when she tried to move an electric pallet jack out of her way by releasing the lever on the electric pallet jack and allowing it to roll away. She was standing between the pallet jack and the dock door when the pallet jack rolled towards her. She was caught between the pallet jack and the dock door, injuring her right leg.

P.C. RICHARD AND SONS

An employee was walking in the hallway when she slipped and fell, breaking her right tibia.

BAW Group LLC

An employee was using a ladder to retrieve material from a top shelf. The employee fell, suffering an injury to the left ankle.

Main Line Clinical Labs

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Ardent Mills

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

Zimmerman & Herr

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

McAneny Brothers, Inc.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

Metz Culinary Management LLC

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.