The Kroger Company

An employee was standing on a raised platform at the seafood counter while setting the service case with product. She misstepped and fell from the platform to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left leg and required surgery.

An employee was adjusting a receiving dock plate when his right little finger was caught in a hinge and the fingertip was amputated.

An employee stepped off his pallet jack when his gloves caught the jack handle throttle button, causing the jack to accelerate. The employee's left ankle was pinned between the pallet jack platform and an angle iron, resulting in injury.

An employee was descending a three-step ladder. The employee fell at the last step, landing on the concrete floor and suffering a broken hip.

An employee was kneeling down cleaning out fuel spill buckets when they were struck by a customer's vehicle, resulting in a fractured pelvis.

An employee was unnesting tote bags when her grip slipped and the back of her left hand hit a box containing a steel step stool that was adjacent to the tote bags. The employee's hand was fractured.

An employee was cleaning up and putting away equipment when the second toe on her right foot was stubbed on a fixture, resulting in hospitalization and a subsequent amputation of the toe.

An employee was walking when he tripped on a concrete vault lid, jamming his big toe into the tip of his steel toe boots. The employee's big toe was medically amputated.

An employee was cleaning a bathroom. As the employee bent over, the corner of a sink hit the employee's right eyeball, causing an injury that required hospitalization and surgery.

On September 23, 2023, an employee was cleaning near a conveyor when they knelt with their right knee on the floor. Their knee contacted a small piece of glass on the floor, resulting in a laceration that required hospitalization.

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 making a delivery in a truck. As he exited the truck, he fell on a step and then to the ground, resulting in a fractured tibia.

An employee was picking items from the freezer section of the warehouse. When he stepped down onto the floor, he turned on the planted foot, and felt a "pop" and pain in his knee. The employee was hospitalized with a dislocated knee and two torn tendons. He required surgery to repair the tendons.

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack when it pinned his right ankle against some racking. The ankle was broken and he was hospitalized.

At 7:40 a.m. on October 3, 2025, an employee was unloading a bulkhead at a dock door. As he pulled the bulkhead out of a trailer, its plastic lip caught on the dock plate, causing the employee to fall and twist his left leg, knee, and hip. The hip was broken and he was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

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.

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.