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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Kohls Department Store

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Kohls Department Store, 2239 Forest Avenue, STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK 10301 on — Fractures, affecting the knee(s).

An employee removed product from an upper shelf while standing on a step ladder. She was then coming down the step ladder with product in her hands when she missed the bottom two steps and fell to the floor, fracturing her left knee and hitting her head. She was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Knee(s) Step ladders

Kohls Department Store

An employee was preparing for store opening when she tripped over a handheld scanner cord and fell, sustaining a femur fracture. The employee was hospitalized.

Kohls Department Store

An employee was processing merchandise and needed more totes to continue his task. To retrieve the totes, the employee used the conveyor belt to access the dock below to where the totes were located. His foot became caught between the links of the conveyor belt, which caused lacerations and muscle damage to his lower leg.

Kohls Department Store

An employee was walking and tripped over a clothing bin causing her knee to pop.

Kohls Department Store

An employee tripped while walking, hitting the floor and suffering a broken nose.

Kohls Department Store

An employee was walking through the office and fell sustaining a broken ankle.

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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.

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.

Garden Angels New York LLC

An employee was cleaning leaves with a backpack blower when he fell from a ladder, resulting in injuries to his head, neck, and back.

Cashless Tolling Constructors

An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.

NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

VILLAGER CONSTRUCTION, INC.

An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.