105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Target

Overexertion in lifting-single episode · Strains

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Target, 8605 Westheimer Road, HOUSTON, TEXAS 77063 on — Strains, affecting the lumbar region.

An employee was moving boxes and sustained a lumbar strain.

Hospitalized Lumbar region Boxes, crates, cartons

Target

An employee was on the upper half of a track ladder that was attached to the aisle and put a box onto a shelf. He fell to the floor and landed on his back, resulting in a back fracture and a concussion.

Target

An employee was pushing a cart through a parking lot on the crosswalk. A vehicle struck the employee, who suffered a skull fracture, a mild concussion, and a laceration.

Target

An employee was unloading a docked trailer when she tripped on a pallet that was partially unloaded and fell forward into the pallet. The employee struck her forehead and the bridge of her nose. She was hospitalized with contusions to her nose and forehead, as well as two slipped discs in her neck. The employee was hospitalized for surgery.

Target

An employee was standing on an A-frame ladder and pulling items from a shelving unit when she fell to the concrete floor and landed on her back. The employee was hospitalized with fractured vertebrae.

Target

Two employees were engaged in horseplay, passing a ball. As the injured employee moved to catch the ball, she fell to the ground and suffered a broken right hip. She was hospitalized.

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Koch Foods of Cincinnati, LLC

An employee was lifting a motor and reaching to place it on a machine when they sustained a back injury. The employee was hospitalized.

MERCY HOSPITAL

On 12/22/2023, an employee was carrying bins filled with pasta to a refrigerator. As he lifted a 20-pound bin, he felt pain in his lower back. The employee sustained a herniated disc.

Jefferson Lansdale Hospital

An employee was lifting a patient when they pulled a back muscle. She suffered back pain and spasms radiating into her leg with weakness and numbness. The employee's L3-L4 disc was herniated and she was hospitalized.

Raytheon Company

An employee was lifting boxes when they suffered a strained back, resulting in hospitalization.

FUSE BUILDS LLC

An employee was lifting a bundle of insulation with a colleague when he felt severe pain in the right side of his lower back/hip region. The employee sustained a severe muscle injury.

Walmart, Inc.

An employee was collecting shopping carts in the parking lot when he was struck by a customer's truck as it was backing out of a parking spot. The truck pinned the employee's left leg against the cart mule they were using. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured leg and required surgery.

Target Corp

An employee was on a ladder, gathering materials from a shelf. She slipped and fell from the ladder to the concrete ground, suffering a broken heel and foot.

Walmart Inc.

An employee was stacking a pallet when the pallet fell, injuring her left leg. She was hospitalized and had surgery on her left leg.

Target Corporation

An employee slipped on water in a hallway and fell to the floor, landing on his left side and head. He sustained a back strain/sprain and was hospitalized.

Walmart Inc.

An employee had been having lunch in her car in the parking lot. When she exited her car, her left knee gave out and she fell on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left femur and required surgery.

T G Meat Center LLC

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

Professional Flooring Supply

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

EnviroSafe Demil LLC

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

Inteplast Group

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

Regency IHS of Fairwinds Halletsville, LLC

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.