Kohl's Department Store

On January 2, 2023, an employee was sorting returned merchandise when she fell over a box, hit her left hip with a walkie-talkie she had clipped on her jeans, and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured hip.

An employee's foot got caught on a tile in a hallway, causing her to fall on her right knee. The knee was broken and she was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was on break in the break room. The employee put her foot up onto a chair, to tie her shoe, while she was standing. When the employee lifted her head back up, from tying her shoe, she passed-out, fell backward, and hit her head. The employee sustained a hematoma on the back of her head and was hospitalized.

An employee tripped on a curb and fell to the ground while walking into work, breaking the left wrist.

An employee was back-stocking merchandise and fell off a ladder. The employee suffered a broken leg and displaced knee.

An employee was passing through a building when she suffered an allergic reaction to a cinnamon air freshener. The employee began to feel dizzy and ill, ultimately becoming unresponsive. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee wearing a blasting hood was preparing to blast inside a tank. The line that supplies the hood with breathing air was plugged into an argon line. The employee breathed the argon gas and fell. The employee was hospitalized for argon poisoning.

An employee was preparing a pump for maintenance. When the employee removed a cover, chemicals were released into the air. The employee was exposed to hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan and was hospitalized.

An employee was exposed to carbon monoxide that was leaking from a kiln. The employee lost consciousness and was hospitalized.

An employee was inside a trailer with a running lawn mower and sustained carbon monoxide poisoning.

An employee was walking into the stock room when they slipped on a wet floor and fell, resulting in a sprained left wrist and a concussion. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was climbing down a ladder. She fell from about 3 feet up, grabbed storage racking but could not break her fall, and landed on the floor. She suffered an injury to the left knee, as well as cuts on the right middle and ring fingers. She was hospitalized.

An employee was exiting the building and walking down the stairs with co-workers when she fell down the stairs and landed on her left hip, fracturing it.

An employee was utilizing an inclined conveyor belt in the stock room to transport a bathroom rug to the second floor. She was at the bottom of the conveyor belt when the rug fell into the conveyor roller mechanism, jamming it. She was working to clear the jam when her right arm became caught in the 3.5-inch gap between the powered conveyor belt and the underside roller. The employee was hospitalized with six fractures, including her forearm, index finger, ring finger, wrist, and thumb, as well as a severed artery. The machine was not guarded or locked out/tagged out at the time.

An employee was repositioning merchandise after the floor was stripped and waxed when they slipped on uncured wax and fell to the floor. The employee sustained a fractured right femur.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.