XPO Logistics Freight, Inc.

An employee finished loading a trailer and needed a strap to secure the freight. He drove his forklift down the dock to the next sector to get a strap from another trailer. He picked up the strap and was driving back to the loaded trailer when the strap got caught under the forklift's tires. The strap was pulled from his hand and skin was removed from his right arm. He also sustained a contusion and an open wound down his right arm and wrist. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was exiting his trailer after cleaning the inside of it. As he stepped off the back of the trailer, he fell to the ground and sustained a broken left wrist.

An employee opened and closed his trailer's roll-up door and sustained a hernia.

At about 8:15 a.m. on September 9, 2022, an employee was guiding a forklift inside a trailer as it moved a 1,084-pound skid of freight. The freight fell onto the employee, who suffered fractures to the ribs, collarbone, and shoulder.

An employee and a customer were pulling a pallet of auto parts from a truck. The employee lost his grip on the pallet and fell from the pickup truck to the ground below, resulting in a broken left hip.

An employee was using a crane. The hook slipped and a fitting fell onto a finger on the employee's left hand causing a fracture and laceration.

An employee was transporting an 800-pound die on a cart from the tool room. The employee was pulling the cart when it struck a metal plate on the floor. This caused the cart to tip forward and the die to slide off the cart. The die struck the employee's left foot and their second toe was amputated.

An employee was using a forklift to load pallets of product on a trailer. He exited the forklift to adjust a pallet by hand. The pallet fell on him, resulting in an injury to the left leg.

An employee was lifting a 500-pound steel counterweight off a pallet using a magnetic hold jib crane. The counterweight detached from the crane and the employee sustained a left foot/toe fracture that required surgery.

An employee was using a pipe wrench to turn a 42-foot-long steel pipe on jack stands to weld the bottom portion. The pipe fell off the stands, striking the injured employee on his left shin. The employee sustained a left leg fracture at the shin area as well as a tibia fracture that required surgery.

A driver was loading a trailer. The driver fell out the back of the trailer and fractured his left elbow on the ground. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was picking bulk bags for shipments. While cleaning pellets off the ground, a stacked bulk bag (full of plastic pellets) collapsed and fell on the employee. The employee sustained fractures to their ribs, pelvis, and left femur.

An employee was delivering goods to a customer. He was folding the truck's lift gate when his left middle finger was pinched in the lift gate, resulting in an amputation.

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack, delivering pallets of groceries to a store. The employee was walking backward when her foot was pinned between the pallet jack and a video pole, resulting in lacerations and fractures to her ankle and heel. She was hospitalized.

An employee was tightening a turnbuckle while attempting to conduct lash-back operations on a ship when their left gloved hand was caught between the upper and lower turnbuckles. The employee suffered a crush injury to the little finger that resulted in a fingertip amputation.

An employee was checking a pole-type transformer tank for leaks. A hydraulic clamping device was lowered onto his right thumb and crushed it against the sharp edge of the bottom of the tank. He suffered a partial transphalangeal amputation to the thumb.

The injured employee was standing behind a table. She jumped out to scare another employee, but tripped and fell on the tile floor, injuring her right ankle/foot. She was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle that required surgery.

An employee was going into a trailer to mark product for shipment and the trailer pulled away from the dock. The employee fell out of the trailer, contacted the dock plate, and then fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a punctured lung, fractured ribs, and contusions.

An employee was hooking up bundled tie-downs with a chain. While he was holding a hook, the other hook was unlocked. This caused the employee's hook to slide down and pinch his right index finger between the chain and the shackle. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip (without bone loss), as well as an open fracture.

An employee was operating a gas tugger to lift metal sheeting. His left hand was pulled into the pulley, which crushed his left thumb, resulting in avulsions and other tissue damage. He was hospitalized and required surgery.