Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at XPO Logistics Freight, Inc., 3733 Massillon Road, UNIONTOWN, OHIO 44685
on — Concussions, affecting the brain.
Final narrative
An employee was found walking around with a gash in his head and a concussion. Another employee slipped on ice and fell, resulting in a broken ankle.
Note to user: This record contains two separate events that were reported simultaneously to OSHA by the employer. These events are captured as one report.
HospitalizedBrainNonclassifiable
More severe injuries at XPO Logistics Freight, Inc.
An employee finished loading a trailer and needed a strap to secure the freight. He drove his forklift down the dock to the next sector to get a strap from another trailer. He picked up the strap and was driving back to the loaded trailer when the strap got caught under the forklift's tires. The strap was pulled from his hand and skin was removed from his right arm. He also sustained a contusion and an open wound down his right arm and wrist. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was exiting his trailer after cleaning the inside of it. As he stepped off the back of the trailer, he fell to the ground and sustained a broken left wrist.
At about 8:15 a.m. on September 9, 2022, an employee was guiding a forklift inside a trailer as it moved a 1,084-pound skid of freight. The freight fell onto the employee, who suffered fractures to the ribs, collarbone, and shoulder.
An employee and a customer were pulling a pallet of auto parts from a truck. The employee lost his grip on the pallet and fell from the pickup truck to the ground below, resulting in a broken left hip.
On September 25, 2023, an employee was working in the body department installing doors, hoods, and tailgates. The employee finished their shift and was hospitalized later that evening for a back injury.
An employee was picking bulk bags for shipments. While cleaning pellets off the ground, a stacked bulk bag (full of plastic pellets) collapsed and fell on the employee. The employee sustained fractures to their ribs, pelvis, and left femur.
An employee was delivering goods to a customer. He was folding the truck's lift gate when his left middle finger was pinched in the lift gate, resulting in an amputation.
An employee was operating an electric pallet jack, delivering pallets of groceries to a store. The employee was walking backward when her foot was pinned between the pallet jack and a video pole, resulting in lacerations and fractures to her ankle and heel. She was hospitalized.
An employee was tightening a turnbuckle while attempting to conduct lash-back operations on a ship when their left gloved hand was caught between the upper and lower turnbuckles. The employee suffered a crush injury to the little finger that resulted in a fingertip amputation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.