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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Lowe's Home Center LLC

Fall on same level due to slipping · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Lowe's Home Center LLC, 860 N Kinzie Avenue, BRADLEY, ILLINOIS 60915 on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.

At about 8:15 a.m., while walking into work from the parking lot, an employee slipped on ice and broke a leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Leg(s), unspecified Parking lot, unspecified

Lowe's Home Center, LLC.

An employee was adjusting a cart containing a bunk of siding. He was pulling the banding holding the bunk together when the banding snapped, causing him to lose balance and fall backward striking his head on the floor. The employee sustained a concussion and lost consciousness.

Lowe's Home Center, LLC

An employee fell off a step ladder while throwing trash into a compactor resulting in a broken left ankle.

Lowe's Home Center LLC

An employee was watering plants in the garden area and tripped and fell over a water hose. The employee was hospitalized with a broken pelvis and stitches in the elbow.

Lowe's Home Center, LLC

An employee was walking to the cash register when she stepped behind a customer, tripped over a display, and fell to the ground, possibly fracturing her wrist.

Lowe's Home Center, LLC

On March 10, 2015, two employees were stocking new cabinets on the shelf using a forklift. One of the employees stepped back and tripped over one of the forks. He fell back and hit his head on a steel beam. He was admitted to the hospital with head trauma.

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AT & T

An employee was stepping out of a car when they slipped and fell on ice, resulting in a femur fracture.

REYNOLDS FORD NORMAN

An employee was closing up for the weekend when they slipped on oil and brake fluid and fell. The employee suffered a leg fracture.

The Westervelt Company

An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.

The Wyndmoor of Marion (OH), LLC

An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.

U.S. Postal Service

An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.

Hamilton Parker Company, LLC.

The injured employee was walking through the warehouse. Another associate was driving a forklift with a pallet of large format tile (slabs) when the slabs began to tip. The injured employee ran over to stop the slabs from falling, but the slabs fell on his lower left leg/foot. The employee sustained fractures in his lower leg and foot. He was hospitalized and required surgery.

Menard, Inc.

An employee was doing a cutback on a piece of lumber using a chop saw. The saw hit a knot, the piece of lumber buckled, then kicked back and broke the kickback guard. The board was then pulled back into the blade, which lacerated the employee's left index and middle fingers.

Lowe's Home Improvement LLC

On October 16, 2025, an employee was entering a parking lot after completing their work shift when they were struck by a vehicle being operated by a customer. The employee fell backward from the impact and the back of their head struck the asphalt. The employee was hospitalized due to brain bleed and a skull fracture.

Menard, Inc.

An employee was descending a rolling ladder when she fell from the last step and her head struck the floor, resulting in a fractured pelvis.

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC dba Lowe's of Mount Vernon

On September 24, 2025, an employee was using a sledgehammer to straighten the forks on a forklift when a piece of metal broke off the fork and became lodged in the employee's leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.