Kmart Corporation

An employee was walking to the break room when she tripped and fell on a piece of plastic that was sticking out from a pallet, fracturing her left elbow and tearing her shoulder tendons.

An employee was bent over straightening a shelf of merchandise when he stood up and fell, striking his head and neck on the floor. He fractured his second and third vertebrae.

Four employees were dumping fixtures from the platform on a forklift into the dumpster. An employee climbed up the side steps of the dumpster to pull fixtures from the platform and fell to the ground fracturing both shoulders, a knee and the nose.

On or about March 14, 2016, an employee was closing the office safe door when the door closed on her hand, amputating her right thumb.

An employee was pulling merchandise and placing it on a cart. She stepped on a pallet to stack more merchandise on the cart and twisted her right ankle as she turned around and was coming off the pallet.

An employee was fixing ceiling tiles while working from a ladder when they fell to the floor and sustained a hip fracture.

An employee was on an A-frame ladder retrieving materials from a shelf. He slipped and fell and his leg got caught in the ladder rungs, breaking his left tibia.

An employee was unloading materials from a flatbed trailer when they fell from the trailer and landed on the ground. The employee sustained a fractured left leg.

An employee was unloading appliances at a customer location for delivery. The employee was moving a water heater to be placed on the liftgate when he stepped backward and fell to the ground. The employee sustained rib and back injuries.

An employee was coming down a portable ladder when they slipped and fell to the ground, resulting in a right forearm fracture.

On August 30, 2025, an employee was moving product using a hand truck/dolly. He observed an electric pallet jack obstructing his path and went to relocate it. The electric pallet jack ran over his right ankle, dislocating it.

An employee was driving a forklift when the forklift and his left hand struck a racking system, resulting in a cut and fracture that required surgery.

An employee was aligning a cart on a stock picker. The cart dropped onto the top of his right index fingertip, causing an amputation to the fingertip.

An employee fell 48 inches to the parking lot ground after exiting a door. The employee sustained head trauma, a head laceration, and broken wrists.

An employee climbed a ladder to hang a sign, lost his balance, and fell to the floor. The employee sustained back and leg injuries.

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.