Struck by rolling powered vehicle or machinery · Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Dolgencorp LLC, 30 Martha Drive, BETHEL, PENNSYLVANIA 19507
on — Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures, affecting the Knee(s).
Final narrative
An employee was operating a rolling container carrier (RTC) vehicle in pedestrian mode. When he operated the hand lever to turn it, the RTC pinned his left leg against the pick location. The employee suffered a laceration on his left knee and was hospitalized.
An employee was hooking up the lines from a trailer to a yard truck when she lost her footing and fell onto her right side on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with an injury to her right hip.
At about 3:40 a.m. on August 13, 2025, an employee was filling orders in an aisle. She was pulling over her material handling equipment to allow another employee to get around her when the equipment struck a rack. She suffered a laceration to the left leg/knee area.
On October 9, 2024, an employee was observing a weekly store delivery. While the liftgate was on the ground, a rolling container carrying refrigerated product rolled off. When the employee stopped the rolling container, it fell onto her left leg. She was hospitalized with a left leg fracture.
An employee was unloading freight from a semi-truck trailer when their foot was caught on the liftgate, resulting in a partial amputation of their left big toe.
An employee was returning from lunch while another employee was moving a powered rolltainer carrier from its parking spot, when the carrier went forward and struck the injured employee on her left leg, resulting in a laceration requiring surgery.
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.
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.
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.
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.
More severe injuries in this industry (NAICS 452990)
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.
An employee was on a 6-foot A-frame ladder, working to replace ceiling tiles. They fell to the ground and sustained fractures to their hip and femur. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
An employee was walking backward with a pallet jack loaded with cases of toys. When the employee went to stop the pallet jack, it rolled over his right foot. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured distal tibia and a torn tendon in his foot that required surgery.
An employee was walking in a dispense area when she tripped over a pallet and fell to the ground, resulting in a broken left hip that required hospitalization and surgery.
An employee was on break in her car in the parking lot when an individual came out of a nearby store and began yelling at her. The employee was shot by this person three times in her torso/chest. The employee was hospitalized.
An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.
An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.
An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.