THE HOME DEPOT DISTRIBUTION CENTER

An employee was walking in and out of a pre-crusher machine when he fell into the bay of the machine and suffered a head injury. The machine was turned off at the time of the incident.

An employee was walking backward when they tripped over a pallet jack and fell, hitting their head on the floor and suffering a head injury.

An employee was stocking shelves when a box fell onto his foot, resulting in a right foot and toe fracture.

An employee was operating an electric forklift when it struck a pile of cardboard. The employee jumped off the forklift, which ran over the employee's left ankle. The employee sustained an injury to the ankle that required surgery, as well as a potential right wrist fracture.

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack to pick up products when their foot slipped off the pallet jack and was struck by the equipment. The employee sustained a foot injury.

On October 25, 2023, an employee was in the warehouse driving a forklift toward the dock door. The forklift struck a conveyor belt and the employee sustained broken ribs.

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack when it struck a stanchion. The employee sustained fractures to the right chest and right ankle.

An employee was operating a forklift when the vehicle collided with a wall. His right foot struck the wall, resulting in three fractures in his foot.

An employee was using a walkie-rider to load a trailer. As she turned a corner, the walkie-rider struck the trailer and the employee was thrown to the ground. She was hospitalized with a fractured left leg.

An employee was driving a forklift and struck a pole, resulting in a broken left ankle.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.