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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Kohl's Department Store

Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Kohl's Department Store , 17620 Halsted Street, HOMEWOOD, ILLINOIS 60430 on — Fractures, affecting the shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e).

An employee tripped over the leg of a clothing rack and fell, fracturing a shoulder.

Hospitalized Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) Floor, n.e.c.

Kohl's Department Store

On January 2, 2023, an employee was sorting returned merchandise when she fell over a box, hit her left hip with a walkie-talkie she had clipped on her jeans, and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured hip.

Kohl's Department Store

Eleven employees became ill after exposure to carbon monoxide from propane-powered equipment that was being used for construction inside a building. One employee was hospitalized.

Kohl's Department Store

An employee's foot got caught on a tile in a hallway, causing her to fall on her right knee. The knee was broken and she was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Kohl's Department Store

An employee was on break in the break room. The employee put her foot up onto a chair, to tie her shoe, while she was standing. When the employee lifted her head back up, from tying her shoe, she passed-out, fell backward, and hit her head. The employee sustained a hematoma on the back of her head and was hospitalized.

Kohl's Department Store

An employee tripped on a curb and fell to the ground while walking into work, breaking the left wrist.

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Walmart Stores 4686

An employee was going to the breakroom when they tripped over a chair and fell, resulting in a hip fracture.

Walgreens Co.

An employee arrived at work and was walking into the store through the parking lot. The employee tripped over a curb and fell to the ground, sustaining a femur fracture.

TJX Companies / TMaxx

An employee tripped over a box and fell to the floor, fracturing their right arm.

HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital

An employee was preparing for a CT scan when she tripped over a loose strap and fell to the floor, fracturing her hip.

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.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.