Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

On February 20, 2025, at approximately 5:45 p.m., an employee was stocking bananas when he tripped and fell to the ground, injuring his right hamstring. He was hospitalized with a hematoma and a torn ligament.

An employee was inflating a tire on a flatbed trailer when the tire exploded. The rim struck the employee, resulting in a broken right arm.

On October 27, 2023, the injured employee was moving material from the aisles to the staging area when another forklift entered the aisle. The injured employee jumped from his forklift, injuring his lower leg on a pallet being transported on the other forklift.

An employee was checking receipts when they were punched by a customer, fell and struck their head on the ground. They sustained a brain bleed and concussion.

An employee was operating a forklift outside in the garden center. The forklift went between two bollards and his left foot was caught between a bollard and the forklift. The employee sustained a deep laceration to the side of his foot and the little toe was medically amputated.

Employee 1 was operating a lift in a standing position. Employee 2 was operating a cherry picker and backing up through an aisle. The lift collided with the cherry picker and employee 1 fell off the lift after striking his right ankle on a wooden pallet that was on the cherry picker. The employee sustained a broken ankle.

An employee was operating a front-rider pallet jack from a freezer box to the loading dock when the vehicle collided with a stand-up forklift that was driving around a corner. The employee suffered multiple fractures in their left foot.

An employee was operating a forklift in reverse down an aisle when the vehicle collided with another forklift. The forks of the other forklift went into the employee's right leg, resulting in a right hairline leg fracture.

After moving empty containers with a forklift, an employee began to travel forward in the forklift. While re-entering the main aisle, the left fork struck the roll cage of an oncoming forklift that was travelling in reverse. This caused the injured employee's forklift to tip over onto a guardrail. The upper rail of the guardrail entered the top of the forklift's roll cage, pinning the employee's legs against the seat. The employee sustained a fractured leg.

An employee was operating a golf cart to retrieve and transport a ladder to the truck shop when they were struck by another vehicle at an intersection. The employee sustained head/brain injuries.

An employee was picking an item in the picking area when a can of sweet peas fell onto his left ring finger, resulting in a partial amputation through the phalanx.

An employee was in the dairy cooler and bent down to get something for a customer. While standing up, the back of his head struck a top stock cart. The employee suffered a brain bleed and required surgery.

On June 5, 2025, an employee was pouring a bottle of antimicrobial produce wash when they inhaled the product and sustained irritation in their lungs and dizziness. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was walking when their foot caught on the edge of a plate connected to a beam and they fell to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured femur.

An employee was preparing to make a delivery to a store when his hand was caught in the side lift gate of the trailer. The employee sustained tissue amputations of his middle and ring fingertips and an open fracture to the tuft of his ring finger.

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.