O'Reilly Auto Parts

An employee was carrying a plastic tote full of brake rotors. His foot caught the corner of a pallet, causing him to fall to the concrete floor and break his hip.

An employee was on a 6-foot ladder, getting a boxed cooling fan from a top shelf in a storage area. His hand slipped off the box, causing him to fall backward from the ladder to the concrete floor. He suffered fractures to his right elbow and right hip, as well as contusions to the head and shoulders.

Two employees were putting a broken pallet jack into a metal recycling bin using a dock stocker. The jack became stuck on a pallet of totes next to the bin, causing the jack handle to snap back. It pinched the injured employee's fingers against the bin, resulting in an amputation to the ring fingertip.

An employee was returning to close the hood of a customer's vehicle when he tripped and fell to the ground. The employee sustained several rib fractures and chip fractures to his lumbar vertebrae.

An employee was walking through the back room of a store when she tripped over a battery on the floor and fell, landing on her right wrist. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured wrist.

On December 26, 2023, an employee went out to the parking lot to troubleshoot the starter of an SUV. The employee was underneath the vehicle when it started and moved and the employee's middle back area was caught under the front passenger-side tire. The employee sustained a fractured collar bone.

An employee was parking at a patient's home and exited the van to manually open the garage door. The van began rolling backward and rolled over the employee's right leg. She was hospitalized with a fractured leg.

A driver exited their truck so they could provide service for a customer when the truck began to roll away. The driver went to re-enter the truck but fell and was struck by the rear driver-side tire. The employee sustained fractures to their leg and foot.

An employee had been operating a yard tractor. He parked the vehicle and was exiting when the vehicle began to roll, causing him to fall. The employee's hand was then run over by the yard tractor, resulting in fractures to multiple fingers. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was checking for a leak in the air brake system of a semi-truck. The employee had removed the brake chamber when the truck rolled back. One of the tires pinned the employee's right hip against the ground.

An employee was carrying a plastic tote full of brake rotors. His foot caught the corner of a pallet, causing him to fall to the concrete floor and break his hip.

An employee tripped on a rotor on the floor of a store, fell, and suffered a broken right thumb.

An employee was working on a vehicle in a bay. As he turned around, his foot caught on the leg of a lift and he heard/felt a snap and pop in his right hip and fell. The employee sustained a torn hamstring in his right leg.

An employee was installing a driveshaft on a customer's vehicle. He was using a floor jack to hold the driveshaft in place to line up the bolts. The driveshaft moved off the jack and crushed his left ring fingertip, resulting in an open fracture of the tuft of the distal phalanx, as well as a partial amputation.

An employee was in a truck, helping a team lift a 55-gallon drum into the truck. The employee fell to the ground and suffered a broken left arm. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

An employee was operating an ironworker (steel punching/shearing) machine. A piece of the tooling broke off and struck the employee's neck; a fragment was lodged in his neck. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

On October 25, 2025, an employee was stringing up a new reel of tire tread on a machine. The employee pulled a 6-inch tail and proceeded to spool up the liner. As the machine was jogged to begin the liner wrapping process, the liner caught the employee's glove and pulled their right arm into the liner, causing a fracture to the arm.

An employee was doing a cable change on top of an electric overhead traveling (EOT) crane. They were positioned between the cable drum and the drive shaft. While rotating the cable drum, the employee reached for the new cable that was to be installed. The grease fitting on the drive shaft caught their fall harness and pulled them underneath the drive shaft. The employee was pinned between the drive shaft and two pieces of angle steel, resulting in a fracture to their left hip.

An employee was helping two other employees to push a pallet of tile on a loading dock. He suffered a broken fibula and was hospitalized.

On October 5, 2025, an employee was pulling a pressure washer hose when it it disconnected from the cooker. The employee was struck by jets of high-pressure water, resulting in lacerations to their left thigh requiring surgery. The employee was hospitalized.