CarMax

An employee had been loading cars on a car transport truck. He lost his footing and fell from the upper deck of the transport truck. He landed on his back on the ground approximately 6 feet below. The employee sustained two fractured vertebrae.

An employee was unloading a truck when they fell out of the bed approximately five feet to the ground. They sustained fractured ribs and a collapsed lung.

An employee's finger was crushed in a closing door.

An employee fainted due to the heat and fell sustaining head and rib injuries.

An employee was sitting down at the Service Operations Desk when he began to feel dizzy and light headed. When he got up he fell to the floor of the service drive. After being assisted by the other associates he was transported to the hospital and diagnosed with heat exhaustion. The temperature at the time of the incident was 86 degrees with the previous 6 hours being between 89 and 91 degrees.

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

The injured employee was standing behind a table. She jumped out to scare another employee, but tripped and fell on the tile floor, injuring her right ankle/foot. She was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle that required surgery.

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.

An employee tripped over a concrete curb stop in a parking lot. The employee fell to the ground, landing on their left hip and breaking it.

An employee was driving a pickup truck into an auction lot when it collided with a security hut, causing the airbags to deploy. The employee was hospitalized due to a broken right hip; broken ribs number three, five, and seven on the right side; a chest contusion; a laceration to the top of the head; and a concussion.

An employee was walking in the parking lot when he fell backward and hit his head on the pavement. The employee sustained a head contusion and scrapes and bruises to his head, elbows, and hands. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was taking parts inside from his vehicle. He slipped on ice/snow in the parking area and fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with a broken hip.

An employee was walking through the shop when he slipped on a wet spot on the concrete floor and fell, striking his back and right elbow. The employee sustained a fractured hip and was hospitalized.

An employee was adjusting his knee brace while standing at the top of a flight of stairs. He lost his balance and fell down the stairs, striking his head and hand on the concrete floor. The employee sustained abrasions, a swollen eye, a broken finger, and lacerations to the head that required stitches above an eye.

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.

An employee was using a vertical band saw to cut a thick piece of rubber material. While being cut, the material shifted, causing the employee s right hand to contact the moving blade. The employee's thumb was amputated below the knuckle. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

A production sanitation employee was pre-rinsing an incline conveyor and noticed cheese stuck between the belt idler. The employee went to remove the cheese and their glove got caught and pulled their left forearm into the conveyor. The employee's arm was fractured. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

An employee was on a ladder, taking measurements for a new gutter installation. The ladder slipped out from under him and both he and the ladder fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with seven broken ribs and a broken clavicle.

An employee was unloading a truck for a delivery job. While moving boxes in the truck, the employee tripped over a pallet and fell out of the truck to the ground, resulting in four broken ribs.