Overexertion in lifting, lowering, unspecified · Strains
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Walmart Fulfillment Center, 3215 Commerce Center Blvd., BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA 18015
on — Strains, affecting the lumbar region.
Final narrative
On September 10, 2022, an employee suffered a lower back strain while lifting products to pack boxes.
An employee was organizing merchandise in the backroom. She lifted a box of merchandise and when she went to put the box down, she sustained back pain.
An employee was unloading boxes from a shipping container by hand when he felt a pinch in his back. The employee was hospitalized for a subarticular disc protrusion.
An employee was setting up a meal service for a new hire orientation. The employee was removing food items from a speed rack station and bending to retrieve bowls of food when she sustained a back strain.
An employee was picking an item in the picking area when a can of sweet peas fell onto his left ring finger, resulting in a partial amputation through the phalanx.
An employee was in the dairy cooler and bent down to get something for a customer. While standing up, the back of his head struck a top stock cart. The employee suffered a brain bleed and required surgery.
On June 5, 2025, an employee was pouring a bottle of antimicrobial produce wash when they inhaled the product and sustained irritation in their lungs and dizziness. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was walking when their foot caught on the edge of a plate connected to a beam and they fell to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured femur.
An employee was preparing to make a delivery to a store when his hand was caught in the side lift gate of the trailer. The employee sustained tissue amputations of his middle and ring fingertips and an open fracture to the tuft of his ring finger.
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.