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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Lowe's Distribution Center

Struck by other falling object n.e.c. · Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Lowe's Distribution Center, 2651 Ham Brown Road, KISSIMMEE, FLORIDA 34746 on — Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures, affecting the Other finger(s) n.e.c..

An employee was straightening the frame of the hydraulic press. The metal base that was laying on top of the frame fell onto his hand causing a laceration to his left ring finger that required surgery.

Hospitalized Other finger(s) n.e.c. Parts and materials unspecified

Lowe's Distribution Center

An employee was operating a pallet rider when their foot was caught between the pallet rider and an endcap concrete barrier. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured foot.

Lowe's Distribution Center

A package became caught in a conveyor, creating a jam. While trying to clear the jam, an employee was caught by a conveyor roller and pulled into the conveyor belt. The employee suffered friction burns to the hand and forearm, as well as a laceration to the forearm.

Lowe's Distribution Center

An employee's finger was caught in a closing door resulting in an amputation to the fingertip.

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RG Professional Carpenter, Inc.

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.

Rae Corporation

An employee was helping to move a 1,300-pound coil on a cart. The steel caster hit a crack in the concrete, the weld holding the caster onto the cart broke, and the coil and cart tipped over onto the employee. He was hospitalized with a laceration on his forehead and a pelvic fracture on his right side.

Red Dot Corporation

An employee was attempting to lift a steel beam from a horizontal, stacked position to a vertical position using a crane. They had placed two hooks on the east side of the beam on the flange. As the employee was hoisting the crane, the beam began to shift and pulled the employee forward onto the stack. When the material shifted, the hooks released and the material fell, pinning the employee between the two beams. The employee was hospitalized with soft tissue contusions on their proximal right thigh and interior left thigh.

Simon Contractors of South Dakota, Inc.

An employee was moving a tensile strength test device with a dolly. The device fell from the dolly onto the employee's right leg, causing a compound fracture.

RJV Construction

An employee was rigging I-beams. An I-beam slid off the stack of I-beams and fractured the employee's leg.

Walmart Inc

An employee was lifting a box of produce in the backroom area when she suffered pain in her lower back and was unable to stand, resulting in hospitalization.

ABM Industries, inc

An employee was reversing a pallet jack into a parking space when his leg was caught between the pallet jack and a railing post. The employee was hospitalized with leg and back injuries.

Walmart, Inc.

An employee was walking in the back room when she was struck by a display pallet of ketchup, causing her to fall to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and abrasions on her left wrist and arm.

Walmart, Inc.

On October 5, 2025, an employee was stocking materials when their foot struck an apparel rack, causing them to fall and suffer a hip injury that required hospitalization.

Walmart Supercenter

An employee was cleaning the restroom when she slipped and fell to the ground, injuring her ribs on the right side. The employee was hospitalized.

DRIFTWOOD NURSERY & LANDSCAPING, INC

An employee was helping a coworker transport a tall palm tree with a mini skid steer. The employee was severely shocked by a high-voltage electrical wire above the ground.

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

An employee was retrieving a Christmas tree from a shelf using a ladder. He missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained injury to his head and wrist.

Envelope Seal Insulation, Inc

An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida

An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.

Air-flo/Erwood Heating & Air Conditioning

An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.