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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Performance Foodservice

Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Performance Foodservice, 524 West 61st Street, SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA 71148 on — Fractures , affecting the Ankle(s).

An employee stepped off a powered pallet jack. The jack was still moving, and the employee suffered a broken ankle.

Hospitalized Ankle(s) Pallet jack riding

Performance Foodservice

An employee fell off a portable ladder while getting parts from a meat room. The employee landed on the ground and suffered a broken femur.

Performance Foodservice

An employee was operating a powered pallet jack during a training exercise when it collided with a nearby racking system. Their left ankle was caught between a pallet and the pallet jack and fractured.

Performance Foodservice

An employee was walking out of the freezer on a trailer and slipped on the stairs. They fell to the pavement, breaking their right upper arm.

PERFORMANCE FOODSERVICE

An employee was preparing to change the tire on an electric pallet jack. A hydraulic jack was used to lift the pallet jack while a jack stand was placed into position. The jack slipped, causing it to fall and injure the employee's left pinky finger. His finger had be surgically treated and partially amputated due to tissue damage.

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East Penn Manufacturing Company

An employee was walking/moving a walkie (material handling equipment) when it struck and fractured their right leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Americas Auto Auction Group

An employee was was exiting a car they were detailing when a malfunction caused it to move. The employee was pinned between the car door and a pole, suffering a lower left leg fracture and crushing injuries.

POI Aviation Incorporated

An employee was operating a tug that had been re-tagged due to faulty brakes. As the employee approached the designated parking area, he slowed the tug using the clutch and then exited the tug. He went to stop the tug from colliding with a concrete wall when his right ankle became caught between the tug and a parking stall barrier. He sustained a fractured ankle and was hospitalized.

Merit Logistics

An employee was on a tugger. He was backing up to pick up a stack of pallets. While aligning the tugger with the pallets, his left leg was caught and broken between the tugger and a storage rack.

Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company LLC

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack. While standing beside the equipment, the pallet jack lurched forward, pinning the employee's leg against racking. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right ankle.

Kitchen Fresh Foods Inc

An employee was cleaning a depositor machine to setup for a new product run. His right index finger was caught by moving parts in the depositor machine and the fingertip was partially amputated without bone loss.

Dietz & Watson Inc.

An employee was under a label machine, working to remove a jammed label. The machine partially amputated her left index finger at the first knuckle.

Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company LLC

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack. While standing beside the equipment, the pallet jack lurched forward, pinning the employee's leg against racking. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right ankle.

Walmart, Inc.

An employee was on a top stock cart, moving items on shelving on the sales floor. The employee fell and suffered a broken left ankle. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Walmart, Inc.

An employee was using a walkie stacker when the merchandise on it shifted and fell onto him. He suffered a head injury and a broken left leg that required surgery. He was hospitalized.

Kisatchie Midnight Express

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

Jean Simpson Personnel Services, Inc.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

Calvary Industries Inc

An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.