North American Lighting, Inc.

An employee was retrieving empty plastic totes from a material storage area. The totes weighed 7.5 pounds and measured 15 inches in width, 24 inches in length, and 7 inches in height. The employee tripped over conveyor rails and fell on his left side onto the concrete floor, resulting in hospitalization with a ruptured quadricep tendon in his right knee.

On July 22, 2024, at approximately 11:15 AM, an employee was moving an air conditioning unit on the roof when their right middle finger became caught between the bottom of the unit's frame and the roof curb frame. The employee sustained an amputation to the fingertip.

On July 18, 2024, at 1:09 a.m. in the receiving dock area an employee was pushing a trash can toward the compactor as a forklift was operating in reverse. The forklift struck the employee's left foot causing three toe fractures, including an open fracture of the big toe. The injured employee was hospitalized.

At about 3:00 a.m. on November 14, 2020, an employee was checking a molding machine containing seized-up material. As he opened the machine's door and looked down, the molding material gassed off and blew into his face. He suffered facial burns, as well as splatters on the neck and hands, and was hospitalized,

An employee walked to the back of the assembly line to sign off on the completion of the fail-safe process. When they were returning to the front side of the assembly line, the employee stepped inside the frame of a finished goods cart and tripped, striking their head and right shoulder against the cart and the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a head laceration and a dislocated right shoulder.

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

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.

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

An employee tripped over a piece of angle iron and fell to the floor sustaining a broken hip.

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

An employee was cutting wire when his gloved left hand got pulled into the counter on the wire machine resulting in amputation of his left little finger and a laceration to his right ring finger.

An employee reached under a raised truck to pull on the spare tire when the jack slipped, causing their hand to be caught between the fallen truck and the spare tire. The employee was hospitalized with a severe injury to the right hand.

An employee was replacing a hydraulic cylinder on a mini-excavator. The employee was positioning the machine while it was in a trailer when their right leg became pinned between a track and the trailer, resulting in severe lacerations to the lower leg.

An employee was using an 8-foot folding ladder to retrieve a 250-foot coil of wrapped wire on a shelf. The employee dropped the wire which struck the ladder, causing the employee to fall from the ladder to the concrete floor. The employee sustained a skull fracture, a right knee fracture, and a rib fracture.

Four employees were moving a wooden spool of fiber-optic cable fiber when the injured employee slipped and fell, twisting his ankle. The employee suffered three fractures to his ankle.

An employee was traveling down the maintenance aisle of a warehouse on a single-pallet front rider jack. The jack malfunctioned, causing the brakes to apply; the employee fell forward onto the concrete warehouse floor. The employee suffered an injury to the left leg and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was operating a metal roller machine to roll a small piece of metal. The employee's right index finger became caught between the metal and the machine, and the fingertip was amputated.

An employee was shot in the leg with a pistol during an altercation with two people who had entered the store without permission.

An employee was directing a truck driver to a dump site when the truck's peanut trailer slipped off the kingpin. As the trailer fell, a ladder attached to it lacerated the employee's ear. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was unloading a forklift from a trailer to the ground. The employee was climbing down the ladder of the trailer when their foot slipped through one of the rungs, causing them to fall backward onto the forklift forks. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs.