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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Big Lots

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Big Lots, 7135 Veterans Memorial Blvd, METAIRIE, LOUISIANA 70003 on — Fractures, affecting the elbow(s).

An employee was unloading a shipment of mattresses from a truck at the loading dock. The employee slipped and fell about 18" from the loading dock to the ground floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture to the humerus in the right elbow.

Hospitalized Elbow(s) Ramps, loading docks, dock plates

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An employee turned away from a cash register, tripped on a bag of trash on the floor behind her, and fell, suffering a broken hip.

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An employee was cleaning behind a conveyor when their finger was caught in the drive chain resulting in a right index fingertip amputation.

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An employee was pushing a cart with a mattress/box spring on top of it. The mattress hit a shelf, and the employee's right little fingertip was amputated.

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An employee tripped over a fan cord near the register she was working at. She fell and broke her left hip.

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An employee was standing next to a golf cart when it was struck by a high lift fork truck. The golf cart then struck the employee in the upper thigh, causing internal bleeding and possibly deep bruising.

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Electrical Contractors Inc.

An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.

M1 Support Services

An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.

FEDEX Ground Package System, Inc.

An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.

SRM Concrete

An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.

U.S. Postal Service - Los Angeles P&DC

An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.

Certain Teed Insulation Athens

An employee was working to unjam an auger screw. The screw caught his glove, resulting in a severe open fracture to his left lower forearm. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Walmart Distribution Center #6069

An employee was working in a warehouse without air conditioning on a day when the temperature outside was in the 90s. The employee developed heat stress, became ill, and was hospitalized.

Royal Oaks Enterprises LLC

An employee was walking in the middle of the track during heavy rain when he slipped on a rail transition and fell, hitting his arm on the rail. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left arm.

F.C. Ziegler Company

An employee was scraping down the sides of a mixing machine. The machine activated and her right arm was caught in the auger, resulting in a fractured lower arm.

Elmet Technologies (formerly H.C. Starck Solutions - Euclid)

Two employees were conducting a roll change on a rolling mill machine using a porter bar and a counterweight sleeve. The sleeve slid back and crushed the injured employee's right index fingertip between the sleeve and the counterweight, resulting in a partial amputation.

Kisatchie Midnight Express

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

Jean Simpson Personnel Services, Inc.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

Calvary Industries Inc

An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.