Costco Wholesale Corporation

An employee was cutting pork ribs using a vertical band saw. The saw blade amputated the tip of his right middle finger.

On June 5, 2025, an employee was pouring a bottle of antimicrobial produce wash when they inhaled the product and sustained irritation in their lungs and dizziness. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee stepped from a forklift to the ground and sustained a fractured ankle.

An employee was unjamming a de-boxer machine that scores boxes to make them easy to open. The employee sustained a partial transphalangeal amputation to a finger.

An employee was removing a meat loaf from the oven when they were splashed by hot grease. The employee was hospitalized for burns.

An employee was assaulted and suffered trauma to the head, neck and chest that resulted in cardiac arrest. The employee required hospitalization.

On May 11, 2022, a pedestrian boarded a bus and assaulted the driver. The driver sustained a cut to the left side of the face and cuts to several fingers on the right hand.

An employee was assaulted and injured while sweeping a lot at 3:44 a.m.

An employee was assaulted in a parking lot after closing a store. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was parking his tractor trailer truck. He was found on the ground with broken ribs, a broken forearm, lacerations on the back, and a bloodshot eye. He appears to have been assaulted.

An employee was unloading a stock truck when an 8-foot butcher block countertop fell onto their fingers, resulting in amputations to their left middle and ring fingertips.

An employee was tarping materials when they fell from the top of the materials to the ground, resulting in an injury to their neck and shoulder.

An employee was backing a front-end loader out a doorway. The loader passed over a dip in the floor from the floor drain, and the employee was jarred into its door. The employee suffered a spinal cord compression causing pain in their neck and back, along with numbness in the legs.

An employee was working at a framing machine. The employee's fingertip was caught and broken in a clamp.

An employee was removing boxes from a trailer. As the employee was leaving the trailer, boxes fell onto the employee's leg and broke it.

An employee was troubleshooting the control setup for a variable air volume box above a ceiling. The employee's hand came into contact with an exposed, energized 277-volt wire that had loosened from its terminal on the box's assembly. He was shocked and fell off a ladder. His left hand passed across the ceiling grid and was lacerated. He also suffered an electrical burn to the right hand and was hospitalized.

An employee was assembling a baker type scaffold. He was beginning to transverse down the scaffold, approximately six feet off the ground, when the scaffold tipped over and he fell. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured femur.

An employee was stocking and ordering the meat case on the sales floor when he slipped and fell due to water on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.

An employee was working on an exhaust fan on the roof when he tripped on a wire and fell to the ground. The employee sustained scrapes on his elbow, and a fractured right knee with a torn ACL. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was climbing a scaffold when he slipped and fell 10 to 15 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle.