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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

New South Express, LLC

Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at New South Express, LLC, 249-B Clover Road, LINCOLN, ALABAMA 35096 on — Fractures, affecting the foot (feet) and ankle(s).

An employee was scanning parts on a pull cart near a forklift when they were struck by the forklift as it was backing up, resulting in broken bones in their foot and ankle.

Hospitalized Foot (feet) and ankle(s) Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

New South Express, LLC

An employee parked and dismounted her tugger to connect a line of empty carts to the vehicle. Another tugger entered the area towing seven full carts. As the tugger began turning right, the last cart struck the final cart of the line the employee was connecting. Upon being struck, the line of empty carts pushed forward and the first cart in the line struck the employee's left leg, resulting in a tibial plateau fracture.

New South Express, LLC

After moving empty containers with a forklift, an employee began to travel forward in the forklift. While re-entering the main aisle, the left fork struck the roll cage of an oncoming forklift that was travelling in reverse. This caused the injured employee's forklift to tip over onto a guardrail. The upper rail of the guardrail entered the top of the forklift's roll cage, pinning the employee's legs against the seat. The employee sustained a fractured leg.

New South Express, LLC

An employee was operating a forklift, reloading empty containers on a dock door. The trailer was pulled off the dock, causing the forklift to fall out of the trailer. The employee suffered fractured vertebrae.

New South Express, LLC

A tugger pulling five carts stopped abruptly at an aisle, and the carts all tipped over. The racks in them dropped onto the floor and struck an employee, who suffered a broken femur and tibia.

New South Express, LLC

An employee was caught between a cart and a powered industrial vehicle while bending down. The vehicle's handle pinned the employee's left arm against the cart, breaking the arm and wrist.

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An employee was walking around a work area when he was struck by a forklift that was backing up, resulting in several broken bones in his foot.

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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.

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A temporary employee was punched in the face by another temporary employee. He suffered a laceration to the eye.

Ace Hardware International LLC

An employee was backing up a powered industrial vehicle. Her left hand was caught between the vehicle and a rack, and the wrist was broken.

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An employee was operating an extruder and performing a spool swap over from the right spindle to the left spindle. After rewiring the new spool, the employee's clothing got caught in the turning shaft when the left spindle started back up. The employee's left arm was pulled into the machine, resulting in a fractured humerus and lacerations to her triceps. She was hospitalized and required surgery.

M&M Quality Solutions

An employee was resetting a warehouse racking system utilizing an order picker. They fell approximately 5 feet from the order picker to the concrete floor and sustained fractured ribs.

Sysco Gulf Coast, LLC

An employee was traveling down the maintenance aisle of a warehouse on a single-pallet front rider jack. The jack malfunctioned, causing the brakes to apply; the employee fell forward onto the concrete warehouse floor. The employee suffered an injury to the left leg and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Norflex, Inc.

An employee was operating a metal roller machine to roll a small piece of metal. The employee's right index finger became caught between the metal and the machine, and the fingertip was amputated.

Ampler Pizza II LLC

An employee was shot in the leg with a pistol during an altercation with two people who had entered the store without permission.

Birdsong Corporation

An employee was directing a truck driver to a dump site when the truck's peanut trailer slipped off the kingpin. As the trailer fell, a ladder attached to it lacerated the employee's ear. The employee was hospitalized.

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An employee was unloading a forklift from a trailer to the ground. The employee was climbing down the ladder of the trailer when their foot slipped through one of the rungs, causing them to fall backward onto the forklift forks. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs.