TREMONT, PENNSYLVANIA—
Big Lots Distribution Center
Fall on same level, n.e.c. · Fractures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Big Lots Distribution Center, 50 Rausch Creek Road, TREMONT, PENNSYLVANIA 17981 on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).
Final narrative
The injured employee was going to enter a room at the same moment another employee was exiting the room. The door swung open and struck the injured employee. The injured employee fell to the concrete floor and broke her hip. The employee was hospitalized.
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MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA—
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An employee was performing maintenance on a conveyor belt. The employee's hand was caught in the rotating chain and sprocket. Their right hand and index finger were crushed. The employee was hospitalized. The machine was not locked out or guarded at the time of the incident.
TREMONT, PENNSYLVANIA—
Big Lots Distribution Center
An employee was operating a stand-up forklift. Its cage crushed his left hand against a nearby storage rack, degloving the thumb and crushing the fingers.
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA—
Big Lots Distribution Center
At about 1:15 p.m. on July 13, 2018, an employee was driving a forklift. His lift struck a rack and ran over his left foot, lacerating the top and bottom of the foot and breaking several bones. He was hospitalized, and his left little toe was medically amputated.
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA—
Big Lots Distribution Center
While performing warehouse stocking operations, an employee stacked merchandise on a heavy load pallet onto a light load pallet with a forklift when the stack tipped over. When he got off the forklift to try and stabilize the heavy pallet, the stacked pallets fell on him and fractured his left ankle.
DURANT, OKLAHOMA—
Big Lots Distribution Center
While getting out of a tugger, a maintenance employee tripped over something, fell, and could not stand up. He broke his right femur just below the hip on his right side and was hospitalized.
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