Sears

An employee was stocking a bakers rack when her foot became stuck. When she reached around the rack, she fell to the concrete floor, fracturing her right femur and possibly her right kneecap.

An associate was at the register when another associate came to take something out of the drawer. He stepped back and hit the drawer that had been opened, causing a chain reaction. He stumbled and bumped into the associate who had opened the drawer and then she stumbled and fell into the injured employee, causing her to fall onto the floor fracturing the right hip.

An employee missed the last step of an escalator and fell coming down it. She fractured her right ring and pinky fingers, requiring surgery.

On April 22, 2016, an employee was removing a grill from a trailer that was on a powered industrial vehicle (PIV). The employee's head/neck became caught between the PIV and the trailer, causing head/neck injuries that required hospitalization.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An employee was using a hand truck to load a refrigerator onto a box truck. The refrigerator was set down near the back of the truck and the wheel of the hand truck became stuck in the box truck. When the wheel dislodged, the hand truck and the refrigerator fell on the employee's left arm resulting in injury from the hand to the elbow, including tendon damage.

An employee was closing the liftgate to a box truck when their finger was caught in the clamp/gear as it was folding up. The employee pulled his finger out and the left index fingertip was amputated.

An employee was moving a folding bed when the tip of their thumb got caught in it as it folded, resulting in an amputation below the nail.

An employee was moving an appliance with a hand truck, slipped on water that another appliance had leaked, and fell. The hand truck and appliance fell on him. The employee suffered multiple fingertip amputations as well as back and abdominal injuries.

An employee was manipulating a 3-foot tall industrial warehouse rolling gate to determine why it was squeaking during operation. The gate fell over and struck the employee's left leg, causing him to fall off a loading dock and hit his head on the ground. The employee sustained brain injuries, three cranial fractures, a left leg fracture, and rib fractures.

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 inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

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.