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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC

Fall on same level due to slipping · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Lowe's Home Centers, LLC, 5775 Baptist Road, BETHEL PARK, PENNSYLVANIA 15102 on — Fractures, affecting the ankle(s).

An employee was helping a customer exchange a propane tank in the parking lot when they slipped on ice and fell to the ground, resulting in a broken ankle.

Hospitalized Ankle(s) Parking lot-paved

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC

An employee was stocking product in the lawn and garden area of a store when they tripped over a storage rack that was approximately knee height. The employee fell to the ground and suffered a fractured hip that required hospitalization and surgery.

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC

An employee was handling a small platform ladder with three steps and two wheels in the front. The employee was found on the floor underneath the ladder. She was hospitalized with multiple fractures to the sacrum.

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC

An employee was cutting wood on a table saw when his thumb contacted the saw blade. The employee's thumb was partially amputated.

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC

An employee was working in the mulch loading area when they tripped over a pallet of product and broke an ankle.

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC

An employee was pulling a cart when it struck his ankle. He fell to the floor and was hospitalized with a fractured hip.

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AT & T

An employee was stepping out of a car when they slipped and fell on ice, resulting in a femur fracture.

REYNOLDS FORD NORMAN

An employee was closing up for the weekend when they slipped on oil and brake fluid and fell. The employee suffered a leg fracture.

The Westervelt Company

An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.

The Wyndmoor of Marion (OH), LLC

An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.

U.S. Postal Service

An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.

The Home Depot USA, Inc.

An employee was unloading freight from a truck when a stack of doors fell over and knocked the employee to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured femur.

White Cap L.P.

An employee was performing rebar fabrication using a bending machine. The employee's glove became caught in the area where the rebar bend overlaps onto itself. The subsequent bending/cutting caused the two overlapping portions to squeeze together and amputate approximately 1/4" of his left index fingertip.

Builders Warehouse, Inc.

An employee was building wood detail blocking and a wood member needed to be resized. The employee took the wood member to the table saw and set the fence to the correct size. The employee pressed down on the board to control it when his left little finger contacted the running blade, resulting in an amputation.

Ready-Mix Concrete Incorporated

An employee was clearing a pipe along a culvert using a motorized plumbing machine. The end of the machine got tangled and stuck in long grass and other debris. The employee went to lift the end of the machine out of the grass and clear the blockage when his hand was pulled into the machine, resulting in a partial amputation and open fracture of his left distal phalanx.

Texas Building Supply

An employee was operating a router when it cut his right little finger, causing an amputation through the bone.

Main Line Clinical Labs

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Ardent Mills

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

Zimmerman & Herr

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

McAneny Brothers, Inc.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

Metz Culinary Management LLC

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.