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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Target

Fall on same level due to tripping, n.e.c. · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Target, 1167 Washington St, HANOVER, MASSACHUSETTS 02339 on — Fractures, affecting the knee(s).

An employee was unloading a trailer when her shoelaces were caught in a conveyor wheel, causing her to trip and fall on her right knee. The knee was fractured and required surgery.

Hospitalized Knee(s) Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, unspecified

Target

An employee was on the upper half of a track ladder that was attached to the aisle and put a box onto a shelf. He fell to the floor and landed on his back, resulting in a back fracture and a concussion.

Target

An employee was pushing a cart through a parking lot on the crosswalk. A vehicle struck the employee, who suffered a skull fracture, a mild concussion, and a laceration.

Target

An employee was unloading a docked trailer when she tripped on a pallet that was partially unloaded and fell forward into the pallet. The employee struck her forehead and the bridge of her nose. She was hospitalized with contusions to her nose and forehead, as well as two slipped discs in her neck. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

Target

An employee was standing on an A-frame ladder and pulling items from a shelving unit when she fell to the concrete floor and landed on her back. The employee was hospitalized with fractured vertebrae.

Target

Two employees were engaged in horseplay, passing a ball. As the injured employee moved to catch the ball, she fell to the ground and suffered a broken right hip. She was hospitalized.

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True West Beef

An employee was walking down the metal stairs from the palletizing room when he fell backward onto the steps. He sustained two left rib fractures that required hospitalization.

Storm Water Solutions

An employee was removing T-posts from the ground when he tripped and fell on his left arm, resulting in an elbow fracture that required hospitalization.

U S Postal Service

An employee was stepping out of or into a vehicle when their foot became stuck between the curb and the vehicle, causing the employee to fall and sustain an ankle fracture.

Hackettstown Regional Medical Center

An employee fell to the floor when her shoelace was caught on a drawer near her desk. The employee was hospitalized; she sustained a non-displaced femoral neck injury.

Snowshoe Mountain, Inc.

An employee was setting up for an event and carrying gates downhill. As the employee side-stepped down the slope, their right leg became caught in the compacted snow. The employee's momentum continued forward and their right leg remained fixed in the snow, causing fractures of the right tibia and fibula.

Walmart Distribution Center

An employee was driving a pallet jack when it stopped suddenly. The employee lost balance and fell to the ground fracturing the left hip.

Tuesday Morning, Inc.

An employee tripped and fell to the concrete floor, breaking a hip and requiring hospitalization.

Paradies

An employee was stepping off a shuttle bus onto the pavement when she slipped and fell, breaking her left ankle.

Wal-mart

An employee was walking down the aisle when she slipped on the wet floor and twisted her ankle. Her ankle began to swell immediately and was broken in two places. She also fell and hit her head on the floor.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc

An employee was driving a forklift when the load contacted the overhead lighting, dislodging it from the overhead trusses. The employee then attempted to secure the lighting fixture to prevent it from falling. He used a scissor lift to access the light and was in the process of securing it when he touched the fixture, receiving an electric shock and burns to the left ring finger, as well as left arm numbness.

A&S Services Group

An employee fell while exiting a trailer. The employee landed on their left side on the pavement, suffering multiple broken ribs on the left side. The employee was hospitalized.

American Flowform and Machining, LLC

Two employees were setting up a mandrel in the spindle of a machine. The mandrel was side-shifted while an employee's hand was on the mast of a powered industrial truck. The employee suffered crushing injuries that resulted in amputations to the middle and ring fingertips.

Acushnet Rubber Company, Inc

An employee had been loading a double deck press. The employee saw a mold had been sent in with the C-hook still attached on the belly bar. As he went to remove the hook from the mold, his right thumb got caught on the C-hook. The employee's thumb was partially amputated.

Warner Brothers, LLC

An employee was operating a roller and paving a small pathway next to a pavilion. The ground was on a slight pitch, causing him to reach up toward the roll cage to stabilize himself. His right fifth finger was pinched between the roll cage and the rafter of the pavilion. The employee sustained a partial degloving injury with partial traumatic amputation.

Roby's Propane Gas

An employee was delivering home heating fuel when bees came from the ground and stung the employee's face, neck, torso, and hands. The employee proceeded to shut off the oil flow before losing consciousness. They were hospitalized due to an anaphylactic reaction.