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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Kohl's Department Store

Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Kohl's Department Store, 189 Bosely Parkway, PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA 26101 on — Fractures, affecting the wrist(s).

An employee tripped on a curb and fell to the ground while walking into work, breaking the left wrist.

Hospitalized Wrist(s) Curbs

Kohl's Department Store

On January 2, 2023, an employee was sorting returned merchandise when she fell over a box, hit her left hip with a walkie-talkie she had clipped on her jeans, and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured hip.

Kohl's Department Store

Eleven employees became ill after exposure to carbon monoxide from propane-powered equipment that was being used for construction inside a building. One employee was hospitalized.

Kohl's Department Store

An employee's foot got caught on a tile in a hallway, causing her to fall on her right knee. The knee was broken and she was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Kohl's Department Store

An employee was on break in the break room. The employee put her foot up onto a chair, to tie her shoe, while she was standing. When the employee lifted her head back up, from tying her shoe, she passed-out, fell backward, and hit her head. The employee sustained a hematoma on the back of her head and was hospitalized.

Kohl's Department Store

An employee was back-stocking merchandise and fell off a ladder. The employee suffered a broken leg and displaced knee.

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U.S. Postal Service

An employee was delivering mail when they tripped on a curb and fell to the ground, resulting in a kneecap injury.

Kettering Health

An employee was leaving work when they tripped over a curb in the parking lot and fell into a wall, resulting in a fractured left humerus.

RIVERSIDE MEDICAL

A nurse was visiting the home of a patient for requested treatment. She tripped on her gown while going up the steps to the property, falling and fracturing her left femur.

Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center

An employee tripped on a step while entering a house. The employee suffered a broken right femur and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Publix Supermarket

An employee was walking up an escalator that was out of service when they tripped on a step, fell, and suffered a closed fracture to the right femur as well as a dislocated right patella.

Walmart

An employee tripped over a chair in the break room and fell, resulting in lower back pain. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured vertebra.

Walmart, Inc.

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.

Target Corporation Store #1196

An employee was standing on a pallet when their foot caught on the pallet and they fell to the concrete floor, resulting in a fractured right femur.

DILLARD'S

An employee fell from a chair to the floor, suffering a broken right leg/ankle. She was hospitalized.

Penney OpCo LLC dba JC Penney

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.

Caperton Furniture Works, LLC

An employee tripped over a concrete curb stop in a parking lot. The employee fell to the ground, landing on their left hip and breaking it.

Certainteed Gypsum West Virginia, Inc

An employee was conducting routine maintenance on a mixer. New lid pins had been installed, and the employee was rotating by hand to ensure they had been installed correctly. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the lid and top of a pin. The momentum from the mixer continued, causing a crushing injury to the finger. The employee underwent a medical amputation from the top knuckle to the tip of the finger.

Owens Corning

An employee was climbing down a ladder when it slipped. The employee fell, suffering a broken scapula and broken ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

Applied Integrated Services, LLC

An employee was climbing down a 15-foot multipurpose ladder. The employee fell about 8 feet, landing on the concrete floor and the ladder itself. The employee suffered several injuries, all on the right side: broken ribs, a broken sternum, a broken temporal bone, broken shoulder, multiple fractures to the cheekbone, and a brain bleed.

Fedex Freight Inc.

An employee was rolling up the landing gear on his trailer when the handle began to unwind and struck his face, fracturing his jaw. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.