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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Lowes Home Centers, LLC

Other fall to lower level, unspecified · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Lowes Home Centers, LLC, 2801 James L. Redman Pkwy., PLANT CITY, FLORIDA 33566 on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.

An employee was retrieving items from a shelf while on a ladder when the employee fell to the ground, breaking a leg.

Hospitalized Leg(s), unspecified Movable ladders, unspecified

Lowes Home Centers LLC

An employee became ill from dehydration after working outside, loading materials into vehicles.

Lowes Home Centers, LLC

An employee was using a circular saw to cut a 4x4 post when the saw blade contacted his left middle finger, resulting in an amputation of approximately 40% of the finger.

Lowes Home Centers LLC

On 9/5/2020, at approximately 10:40 a.m., a Lowe's employee was making a delivery at a customer's home. The employee had positioned a washer on the lift gate of the delivery truck and was attempting to step around the washer when he fell off the lift gate, which was raised several feet off the ground. As the employee fell, he grabbed the washer and pulled it down on top of him. The washer landed on his abdomen. He was hospitalized with fractured ribs, a fractured C7 vertebra, and a head injury.

Lowes Home Centers, LLC

An employee had been retrieving a one-gallon pail of paint from a shelf. While descending a three-step step ladder, the employee fell from the second step to the floor and sustained a broken hip.

LOWES HOME CENTERS, LLC

The injured employee was helping a co-worker unpack a front load washer in the main drive aisle between appliances and plumbing. The injured employee went to step backwards and tripped. He fell backwards and landed flat on his back and his head struck the floor. He sustained a suspected brain bleed and concussion.

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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.

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.

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.