WalMart #436

An employee had just clocked into work. She was walking across the floor carrying a tote (to return it to another area) when the tote struck her leg. She fell to the floor, suffering a broken hip.

An employee was tossing a damaged toilet into a compactor. The toilet bounced off the compactor and lacerated the employee's right wrist, cutting an artery and tendon.

An employee was operating a hydraulic jack to bend a frame when the jack came loose and struck the employee. They were hospitalized for a spleen injury.

A truck had been towed into the shop with a flat tire and a blown airbag. An employee checked the tire for damage and was airing the tire. The employee was installing the valve core when the bead slipped off the rim. Air escaped, and the aluminum wheel struck the employee's head and face. The employee became unresponsive and was bleeding.

On December 14, 2023, at 8:40 p.m., three employees were inspecting milling machines for startup. A few of the sleeves on the mill drum needed to be changed out. The injured employee was trying to input a sleeve on the mill drum using a hammer. The hammer hit the edge of the drum, which caused a metal piece to splinter off and strike the employee's cheek just below the left eye. The metal splinter embedded in the back of their eye socket, resulting in pain, swelling, and bleeding that required hospitalization.

On December 5, 2023, an employee was setting up a brake press machine when a piece of the bottom die burst and struck the employee. They sustained a laceration to the lower right side of the abdomen.

An employee tripped over a chair in the break room and fell, resulting in lower back pain. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured vertebra.

An employee was performing a pre-operation assessment of an electric pallet jack. The pallet jack activated and pinned the employee's left leg against a guardrail, breaking the tibia. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was standing on a pallet when their foot caught on the pallet and they fell to the concrete floor, resulting in a fractured right femur.

An employee fell from a chair to the floor, suffering a broken right leg/ankle. She was hospitalized.

An employee fell to the floor in a store, suffering a broken right femur, a contusion and inflammation under the right eye, and a contusion and inflammation to her left wrist and forearm.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.