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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Target Corporation

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Target Corporation, 2000 9th Avenue South East, WATERTOWN, SOUTH DAKOTA 57201 on — Fractures , affecting the Wrist(s).

An employee was using a step stool to place a package of diapers on a shelf. The step stool rocked and the employee fell to the floor, fracturing her right wrist. The fracture required surgery to repair.

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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.

Target Corporation

An employee was walking near a checkout aisle when she tripped over a box of bags on the floor and fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right femur and required surgery.

Target Corporation

An employee was on a 6-foot ladder working to adjust a camera system around the ceiling tile. The ladder buckled and the employee fell to the floor, sustaining a laceration to his head and a compression fracture to his lower back. The employee was hospitalized and required staples for the laceration.

Target Corporation

An employee was working at a cash register. She turned away from the register, took a step or two, tripped, and fell to the concrete floor. She suffered a broken left knee and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Target Corporation

An employee was pushing a pallet with a motorized pallet jack when she stepped on a flattened box on the floor, slipped, and fell, fracturing her right hip. She was hospitalized and required surgery.

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A&S Services Group

An employee fell while exiting a trailer. The employee landed on their left side on the pavement, suffering multiple broken ribs on the left side. The employee 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.

Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training

Two employees were removing a service lift platform from the back of a radar system. While handling the service lift platform, employee 2 was standing on the back of the radar and lost their footing, causing the service lift platform to shift and fall. The injured employee then fell from the top of the platform electronic subsystem (PES) to the floor, approximately 56 inches. The injured employee fractured his left elbow and left hip.

Allen Tharp LLC.

An employee fell from a loading dock to the ground 2-3 feet below. She suffered a compound fracture of the left hip and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fortune Foods Texas Inc.

Employee 1 was investigating a gas odor. While employee 1 was checking the equipment, a gas explosion occurred, resulting in a fire that burned the employee's face. Employee 2 entered the area and a second explosion occurred, causing burns to their face and arms. Employee 2 was hospitalized.

Giant Food Stores

An employee tripped while walking from one store register station to another. Her forehead struck a register, and she suffered fractures to two vertebrae in her neck. She was hospitalized.

Meijer Stores Limited Partnership

An employee was pulling a display shipper using the provided strap. The strap broke and the employee fell to the floor, suffering a broken wrist.

Shady Maple Farm Market, Inc.

An employee fell down a flight of stairs to the floor and suffered contusions and lacerations to the forehead and lips. She was hospitalized.

Harris Teeter #352

An employee was stocking and ordering the meat case on the sales floor when he slipped and fell due to water on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.

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.

Agtegra Cooperative

An employee was walking past a crossover conveyor when a ramp came down and hit them in the back. The employee sustained a broken back vertebra, as well as a concussion, and was hospitalized.

Martin Brower Distribution Center

An employee was using a hook tool to pull a pallet onto the lift gate of a tractor trailer. The hook detached from the underside of the pallet, causing the employee to fall backward off the lift gate. The employee landed on the concrete parking lot about 5 feet below, suffering fractures to the skull and two thoracic vertebrae.

Mayfield Truss, LLC

An employee was walking on a truss table when he lost his balance and fell approximately 3 feet to the floor. The employee sustained a dislocated and fractured left ankle.