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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Lowe's Home Improvement

Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Lowe's Home Improvement, 1175 Rombach Avenue, WILMINGTON, OHIO 45177 on — Fractures, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

An employee was operating an order picker. As the order picker was raised the employee's left hand fingers were caught between the order picker cage and a ceiling I-beam resulting in two broken fingers.

Hospitalized Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

Lowe's Home Improvement

An employee was escorting a forklift inside a store. While walking backward, the employee tripped on a pallet and fell, suffering a broken hip.

Lowe's Home Improvement

An employee climbed a racking system to retrieve decking. The employee fell through the racking and landed on the floor, resulting in a fractured right leg.

Lowe's Home Improvement

A cashier was walking to the register in the lumber department when another employee was pushing a cart with lumber and the cart struck the cashier. The cashier fell and sustained a broken left arm and a dislocated left elbow.

Lowe's Home Improvement

An employee was helping to load a refrigerator onto a customer's trailer when he tripped and fell off the trailer to the ground. The employee's right hip was broken and required surgery.

Lowe's Home Improvement

An employee was operating a drivable power stock lift machine to retrieve merchandise from the top shelf. The employee fell from the power stock lift and sustained fractures to their head and ribs.

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TForce Freight

An employee was operating a forklift and unloading a truck. After the truck was unloaded, the employee got off the forklift and proceeded to adjust the dock plate with a hook tool. The dock plate slipped and the employee went to adjust the plate with their hand when their left middle finger got caught. Their finger was amputated above the first joint.

Liveo Research, Inc.

An employee was rotating a carbide granulator blade when his finger was caught between the blade and a stationary part of the machine. The employee's right middle finger was partially amputated and they suffered an avulsion to the right ring fingertip.

Best Pump and Flow

An employee was using a CNC metal lathe machine in manual mode to check that the thread blocking tool made contact with the jaws. As the employee was manually spinning the spindle, his index fingertip was crushed between the spindle's jaws and the grooving insert, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

FORD MOTOR COMPANY

During a material handling operation, an employee's fingertip was caught under an air conditioning unit as the unit was lowered onto a cart. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Lasseter Tractor Company. Inc.

An employee was removing a bolt from a tractor hub when their right index finger was caught between the hub and the frame. The employee's fingertip was crushed and the employee was hospitalized.

The Home Depot USA, Inc.

An employee was unloading freight from a truck when a stack of doors fell over and knocked the employee to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured femur.

White Cap L.P.

An employee was performing rebar fabrication using a bending machine. The employee's glove became caught in the area where the rebar bend overlaps onto itself. The subsequent bending/cutting caused the two overlapping portions to squeeze together and amputate approximately 1/4" of his left index fingertip.

Builders Warehouse, Inc.

An employee was building wood detail blocking and a wood member needed to be resized. The employee took the wood member to the table saw and set the fence to the correct size. The employee pressed down on the board to control it when his left little finger contacted the running blade, resulting in an amputation.

Ready-Mix Concrete Incorporated

An employee was clearing a pipe along a culvert using a motorized plumbing machine. The end of the machine got tangled and stuck in long grass and other debris. The employee went to lift the end of the machine out of the grass and clear the blockage when his hand was pulled into the machine, resulting in a partial amputation and open fracture of his left distal phalanx.

Texas Building Supply

An employee was operating a router when it cut his right little finger, causing an amputation through the bone.

United States Postal Service

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

Foundation Steel, LLC

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

GXO Logistics

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

Abbott Electric Inc

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

American Electric Power Company

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.