Fractures

Name: Fractures at Lowe's Garden Center
Start: 4/3/2025

1 hospitalization · 2025043112 · 4/3/2025 · Lowe's Garden Center

Severity

Hospitalized: 1
Amputation: 0
Loss of eye: 0
Body part: Multiple body parts n.e.c.
Nature of injury: Fractures

Cause

Event: Struck by other falling object n.e.c.
Source: Multiple building materials
Secondary source: Shelves, shelving, racks

Employer

Name: Lowe's Garden Center
Location: 500 Florida 19, PALATKA, FLORIDA, 32177
NAICS: 444110
Jurisdiction: 1

Narrative

An employee was walking by a stack of foam boards stacked on a shelf with a PVC pipe on top of the stack. The PVC pipe and foam boards fell from the rack and crushed him. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to his neck, sternum, and shoulder.

Source

Authoritative: OSHA Severe Injury Reports
Machine: JSON-LD · Markdown