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An employee was working from an 8-foot A-frame ladder, repositioning a Wi-Fi box attached to a drop ceiling. As he pulled a ceiling tile toward himself, he lost his balance and fell back off the ladder. He suffered fractures to the ribs and back.

An employee and a coworker were placing a cold case (refrigerator) into a counter when the coworker lost his grip, causing the employee to also lose his grip. The employee's right-hand pinky finger was caught between the cold case and the counter, amputating it at the first knuckle.

An employee was placing a piece of waste wood in the compactor and caught a wrist between the wood and the side of the compactor breaking it.

A forklift driver was re-positioning a pallet when the pallet fell off the forks, striking and breaking a nearby employee's right leg.

On October 25, 2023, an employee was in the warehouse driving a forklift toward the dock door. The forklift struck a conveyor belt and the employee sustained broken ribs.

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack when it struck a stanchion. The employee sustained fractures to the right chest and right ankle.

An employee was operating a forklift when the vehicle collided with a wall. His right foot struck the wall, resulting in three fractures in his foot.

An employee was using a walkie-rider to load a trailer. As she turned a corner, the walkie-rider struck the trailer and the employee was thrown to the ground. She was hospitalized with a fractured left leg.

An employee was driving a forklift and struck a pole, resulting in a broken left ankle.

An employee was walking in a parking lot when they fell over a yellow plastic parking block to the ground, resulting in a fractured hip that required hospitalization and surgery.

On July 22, 2025, at approximately 6:25 PM, an employee was was walking up the stairs to their work station. When the employee was about halfway up the stairs, they dropped their earplugs. The employee turned to pick up the earplugs, lost their balance, and fell approximately 10 feet to the ground below. The employee was hospitalized with head injuries and a laceration.

An employee was wrangling go-carts. She unfolded and secured a cart and distributed it to another employee, then began pulling out another cart. This cart's casters were entangled with those of a third cart, and both came out together. As the third cart cleared the nested stack, it fell onto its side. This pulled the employee closer to it, and her foot was broken under it. She was hospitalized.

On April 4, 2025, an employee was walking on the production floor when he tripped on a box pallet and fell to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured rib.

An employee was walking into a customer's building when he slipped on ice and fell, resulting in fractures to his foot.

The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

An employee was using a vertical band saw to cut a thick piece of rubber material. While being cut, the material shifted, causing the employee s right hand to contact the moving blade. The employee's thumb was amputated below the knuckle. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

A production sanitation employee was pre-rinsing an incline conveyor and noticed cheese stuck between the belt idler. The employee went to remove the cheese and their glove got caught and pulled their left forearm into the conveyor. The employee's arm was fractured. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

An employee was on a ladder, taking measurements for a new gutter installation. The ladder slipped out from under him and both he and the ladder fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with seven broken ribs and a broken clavicle.

An employee was unloading a truck for a delivery job. While moving boxes in the truck, the employee tripped over a pallet and fell out of the truck to the ground, resulting in four broken ribs.