Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Walgreens Store #09333, 3340 Canoe Creek Rd., SAINT CLOUD, FLORIDA 34772
on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee was stocking inventory in the store when she stumbled and fell, suffering multiple fractures to her leg.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.
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.