Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Kohls Department Store, 7715 S.Boadway Ave. , TYLER, TEXAS 75703
on — Fractures, affecting the ankle(s).
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Final narrative
An employee was walking through the office and fell sustaining a broken ankle.
An employee was preparing for store opening when she tripped over a handheld scanner cord and fell, sustaining a femur fracture. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was processing merchandise and needed more totes to continue his task. To retrieve the totes, the employee used the conveyor belt to access the dock below to where the totes were located. His foot became caught between the links of the conveyor belt, which caused lacerations and muscle damage to his lower leg.
An employee removed product from an upper shelf while standing on a step ladder. She was then coming down the step ladder with product in her hands when she missed the bottom two steps and fell to the floor, fracturing her left knee and hitting her head. She was hospitalized.
An employee was walking behind the store with another associate to get paperwork from the delivery driver when she fell on the walkway and sustained a leg fracture that required surgery.
An employee was adjusting the forks on a forklift when a fork detached from the forklift. The employee jumped out of the way but fell on the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken hip.
An employee was performing a pre-operation assessment of an electric pallet jack. The pallet jack activated and pinned the employee's left leg against a guardrail, breaking the tibia. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee fell to the floor in a store, suffering a broken right femur, a contusion and inflammation under the right eye, and a contusion and inflammation to her left wrist and forearm.
After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.
An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.
An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.