105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Dollar Tree

Exposure to environmental heat indoor · Effects of heat unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Dollar Tree, 5997 Mer Rouge Rd, BASTROP, LOUISIANA 71220 on — Effects of heat unspecified, affecting the BODY SYSTEMS .

On 4/28/2025, an employee was working in the store and felt hot and dizzy due to heat exposure. The employee was hospitalized.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Heat environmental

Dollar Tree

An employee was on a step ladder in a store aisle, making room on shelving for merchandise. She fell from the step ladder to the floor, suffering two fractures in her left leg. She was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Dollar Tree

At 7:40 a.m. on March 11, 2025, a Dollar Tree employee was waiting for a truck in the well of a dock. The truck backed up, and its trailer struck her and pinned her leg against the wall. Her leg was broken and she was hospitalized.

Dollar Tree

An employee was stocking shelves with product that was being removed from boxes. As the employee walked down the aisle, she attempted to step into a space between a step ladder and an open/empty box. The employee's foot hit the step ladder which in turn caused her foot to enter the empty box. The employee attempted to lift her foot out of the box and her forward momentum caused her to trip and fall to the ground. The employee sustained fractured vertebrae and was hospitalized.

Dollar Tree

An employee was cleaning and putting away merchandise when she tripped over a box and fell to the floor, striking a power panel. She sustained a cut above her right eye and an injury to her right shoulder.

Dollar Tree

An employee was working in the stockroom when a vehicle drove into and through the store. The employee was struck by debris.

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Whataburger

An employee was working on the grill when they began to feel ill. The employee was hospitalized to treat heat-related illness. The air conditioning was not working at the location.

Overland Contracting, Inc.

An employee had been working in a fabrication area conducting preassembly of solar modules. The employee was hospitalized for heat-related illness, rhabdomyolysis, and renal failure.

Earl W. Colvard, Inc

An employee was working in the baking chambers of the tire retread center for 5.5-6 hours in approximately 100-degree heat. He developed severe pain and full body cramping. The employee was hospitalized with severe dehydration and heat exhaustion resulting in back pain and a kidney injury.

Stoelzle Glass USA Inc.

An employee was working at an individual selection machine when he began to suffer heat stress, resulting in hospitalization.

Gerdau

On August 8, 2025, an employee developed muscle cramps and dizziness. Later, while working on a plant floor, he developed full-body cramps. He was hospitalized, suffering from head exhaustion.

Dollar Tree, Inc.

An employee fell to the floor while moving a helium tank. The tank fell onto the employee, who sustained a fractured left wrist, a laceration to the left hand, and an impact injury to the head.

Family Dollar 9215

An employee was operating the cash register while customers were attempting to shoplift items. The employee was assaulted by five customers, resulting in fractured ribs requiring hospitalization.

Walmart Supercenter

An employee was walking through the apparel department when she bumped into another employee, causing her to fall to the ground and land on her hip. The employee was hospitalized and had hip surgery.

Walmart Supercenter

An employee slipped and fell to the floor, suffering a broken hip. She was hospitalized for surgery.

Walmart, Inc. Sam's Club

An employee was moving a pallet of protein drink. When she unhitched the straps, the uprights of the pallet rack fell. The pallet of protein drinks fractured her right arm. She was hospitalized and required surgery.

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.