Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Dania Furniture, 1001 Skokie Boulevard, NORTHBROOK, ILLINOIS 60062
on — Fractures, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.
Final narrative
An employee slipped/tripped and fell to the floor, breaking her right arm.
An employee was walking behind the store with another associate to get paperwork from the delivery driver when she fell on the walkway and sustained a leg fracture that required surgery.
An employee was adjusting the forks on a forklift when a fork detached from the forklift. The employee jumped out of the way but fell on the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a broken hip.
On August 30, 2025, an employee was moving product using a hand truck/dolly. He observed an electric pallet jack obstructing his path and went to relocate it. The electric pallet jack ran over his right ankle, dislocating it.
An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.
An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.