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

Lowe's Home Center, LLC.

Fall on same level, n.e.c. · Concussions

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Lowe's Home Center, LLC., 9505 Spring Green Blvd, KATY, TEXAS 77494 on — Concussions, affecting the brain.

An employee was adjusting a cart containing a bunk of siding. He was pulling the banding holding the bunk together when the banding snapped, causing him to lose balance and fall backward striking his head on the floor. The employee sustained a concussion and lost consciousness.

Hospitalized Brain Floor, n.e.c.

Lowe's Home Center LLC

At about 8:15 a.m., while walking into work from the parking lot, an employee slipped on ice and broke a leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Lowe's Home Center, LLC

An employee fell off a step ladder while throwing trash into a compactor resulting in a broken left ankle.

Lowe's Home Center LLC

An employee was watering plants in the garden area and tripped and fell over a water hose. The employee was hospitalized with a broken pelvis and stitches in the elbow.

Lowe's Home Center, LLC

An employee was walking to the cash register when she stepped behind a customer, tripped over a display, and fell to the ground, possibly fracturing her wrist.

Lowe's Home Center, LLC

On March 10, 2015, two employees were stocking new cabinets on the shelf using a forklift. One of the employees stepped back and tripped over one of the forks. He fell back and hit his head on a steel beam. He was admitted to the hospital with head trauma.

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Abbott-Action, Inc.

An employee was pulling on a bale of corrugated cardboard boxes that were on a conveyor. The straps on the bale failed and the employee fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery for a fractured femur and/or hip.

United States Postal Service

On December 27, 2023, an employee was delivering mail to an apartment complex when their knee gave out and they fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a left tibia fracture.

Millennium Mat Company

An employee was walking to the inventory cage when her ankle gave out and she fell to the floor. The employee sustained a femur fracture and was hospitalized.

Publix Super Markets, Inc.

An employee was dislodging a pallet that was stuck when boxes of product fell onto them, causing them to fall to the ground. The employee suffered a fractured femur.

THE HOME DEPOT

An employee was backing up an electric pallet jack when it struck a yellow guardrail, pinning his ankle between the pallet jack and the guardrail. The employee suffered a crush injury to his left ankle and shin.

E&H Hardware Group, LLC

The injured employee was going to use an elevator to go upstairs. The elevator does not have a call button and is operated manually. The employee approached the elevator and used the elevator drop key located in the elevator key box to manually open the door. He then stepped forward into the elevator shaft. The elevator car was on another floor, resulting in the employee falling down the shaft from the first floor to the basement level. The employee was hospitalized with a sprained left hand and bilateral calcaneal fractures.

Ace Hardware Corporation

An employee was aligning a shipping offload conveyor. A component of the machine caught the employee's left middle finger, amputating it above the second knuckle.

Woody True Value

An employee was using a torch to burn off liquid petroleum gas from old 100-pound cylinders so they could be recycled. When he went to move a tank, some gas spilled onto the ground, then ignited in a flash that engulfed him. He was burned on the face, hands, and back and was hospitalized.

Lowe's Home Improvement

An employee was escorting a forklift inside a store. While walking backward, the employee tripped on a pallet and fell, suffering a broken hip.

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.