Defense Logistics Agency

On March 4, 2024, an employee was competing in an obstacle course when they lost their footing on a net and fell 10 feet, resulting in a fractured/compressed spine.

An employee was standing on the fork of a forklift 2 feet off the ground pulling on shrink wrap when he slipped and fell to the ground, fracturing his hip.

On July 12, at approximately 2:30 p.m., an employee was working in the warehouse on the second floor stowing material. The employee tripped while walking and fell to the floor. The employee sustained a fractured hip requiring hospitalization and surgery.

An employee was trying to retrieve a box behind some metal fence pickets. The employee was standing on a pallet between the pickets when a bundle of pickets (weighing about 1,020 pounds) toppled over on the employee's ankle, trapping it between bundles of pickets and causing multiple breaks.

An employee was descending the ladder of a flat bed truck and fell to the ground breaking a hip.

An employee was tying down a tractor on a flatbed trailer with tie down chains. He then stepped back off the trailer to the ground, and felt pain in his left hip. The employee sustained a torn hip flexor.

An employee was unloading tools. As they stepped off a lift gate of a box truck to the trailer, their left knee buckled, causing the right knee to buckle as well. The employee sustained a right knee fracture and a ruptured quadriceps tendon on the left and right leg.

An employee stepped down from a piece of fracking equipment into mud. He twisted his ankle and fractured it.

An employee was exiting his truck when he twisted his ankle on its ramp. He suffered a sprain.

An employee was getting into a semi truck when his back popped and he fell.

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.

A temporary employee was punched in the face by another temporary employee. He suffered a laceration to the eye.

An employee was backing up a powered industrial vehicle. Her left hand was caught between the vehicle and a rack, and the wrist was broken.

An employee was operating an extruder and performing a spool swap over from the right spindle to the left spindle. After rewiring the new spool, the employee's clothing got caught in the turning shaft when the left spindle started back up. The employee's left arm was pulled into the machine, resulting in a fractured humerus and lacerations to her triceps. She was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was resetting a warehouse racking system utilizing an order picker. They fell approximately 5 feet from the order picker to the concrete floor and sustained fractured ribs.

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.