Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
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2021-08-09 | Houston | Tx | Elmington Property Management | Leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was moving a heavy piece of furniture when the furniture shifted and dropped onto the employee's leg, resulting in a broken leg. | |||||
2021-07-21 | Myrtle | Ms | Jackson Furniture | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was in a non-climate-controlled building, applying packaging material to furniture in preparation for shipment. The employee developed a possible heat-related illness. | |||||
2021-07-20 | Lakeland | Fl | J & J Family Moving & Storage LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee developed heat stress/dehydration and collapsed while moving household furniture. | |||||
2021-07-08 | Tampa | Fl | Black Wolf Group, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee had been moving furniture and passed out in the company parking lot from dehydration and heat-related illness. | |||||
2021-06-26 | Gainesville | Fl | Elite Power Moves, LLC | Ankle(s) | Fall on same level due to slipping |
On June 26, 2021, an employee was unloading furniture from a truck when he slipped and fell on the truck's ramp, resulting in a fractured ankle that required hospitalization. | |||||
2021-05-24 | Northport | Al | Two Men and a Truck | Forearm(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
An employee was moving a glass piece of furniture. The piece fell and lacerated the employee's right forearm. | |||||
2021-05-01 | Wesley Chapel | Fl | Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was moving furniture to the back edge of the delivery truck when they fell out of the back of the truck, landing on the ground and sustaining bleeding on the brain. | |||||
2021-04-22 | Grapevine | Tx | Camden Riverwalk Apartments | Brain | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was cleaning a pool with a leaf net. He tripped on pool furniture and fell, suffering a head contusion and a concussion. | |||||
2020-09-22 | Englewood | Co | Goodwill | Ankle(s) | Struck by shifting load during transport, nonroadway |
An employee was using a pallet jack to unload boxes of furniture from a trailer. A box of furniture was sitting on a pallet that was partially shattered. As the pallet was pulled, it completely shattered causing the furniture to fall onto the employee. The employee suffered displaced fractures to both bones in the right ankle. | |||||
2020-09-03 | White Sands Missile Range | Nm | Raytheon | Fingertip(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee was moving office furniture. The employee's right middle finger was caught between a cabinet and a pallet, and the fingertip was amputated. | |||||
2020-07-14 | Asbury Park | New Jersey | Market Street Mission | Arm(s) | Injured by object breaking in hand |
An employee was moving furniture. When the piece being carried bumped into a stationary object, the carried piece's glass shattered. The glass lacerated the employee's arm resulting in a cut artery and nerve. | |||||
2020-06-30 | Belle Rose | Louisiana | Waste Management of South Louisiana | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
A temporary employee was loading a piece of furniture into the hopper of a garbage truck. A glass part on the furniture broke and severely lacerated the employee's lower right leg. | |||||
2020-04-08 | Waltham | Massachusett | Heavy Foot, L.L.C. | Head and trunk | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
While moving furniture, two employee's fell from the second-floor balcony to the ground level when the railing gave way. The employee's were hospitalized with trauma to the back, head and face. | |||||
2020-02-27 | Logan | West Virgini | Logan Regional Medical Center | Brain | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee was moving furniture on a loading dock. The employee felt dizzy and fell backwards three feet off the loading dock to the ground. The employee sustained bleeding on the brain. | |||||
2020-01-21 | Saint Louis | Missouri | West Elm, Inc. | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee was walking in the stockroom and tripped on a furniture skate. The employee fell to the ground and broke a leg. | |||||
2020-01-17 | Victor | New York | RIDGEWAY EQUIPMENT | Neck, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
Two employees were delivering refrigerator up a ramp using a furniture dolly when the dolly and refrigerator tipped over, striking one employee. The employee suffered three broken vertebrae in the neck area and was hospitalized. | |||||
2020-01-06 | Gassaway | West Virgini | Waste Management of West Virginia, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part |
An employee was dumping an 8-yard rear-load container. A piece of furniture was caught between the scraper blade and the hopper seal. When the blade came down, it kicked the container off the truck and into the employee, who suffered bruising to the kidney, spleen, and liver, as well as possible fractures to ribs and/or vertebrae. | |||||
2019-09-17 | Houston | Texas | Labor Finders of Pasadena | Hip(s) and leg(s) | Fall through surface or existing opening less than 6 feet |
A temporary employee was dragging boxed furniture off a truck trailer. The truck was not backed up all the way to the building and the employee's leg slipped between the truck and building. The employee was hospitalized for leg and hip injuries. | |||||
2019-08-26 | Houston | Texas | YRC Freight | Ankle(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was unloading a furniture box at a customer's location when the box fell and hit the employee's right ankle, fracturing it. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-08-15 | Smithtown | New York | Raymours Furniture Co. Inc | Nonclassifiable | Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs |
An employee fell on the stairs while delivering furniture. | |||||
2019-07-17 | Greenville | Wisconsin | Weigh Industries | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was moving furniture and boxes into a new home when the employee became overheated and suffered heat exhaustion. | |||||
2019-06-26 | New York | New York | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP | Lumbar region | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was helping to set up furniture in a conference room when a cart tilted and landed on the employee, causing an L1 fracture. | |||||
2019-06-11 | Jasper | Texas | Aaron's | BODY SYSTEMS | Stings and venomous bites |
An employee was loading furniture in a car when a bee stung him, causing an allergic reaction. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-03-26 | Shreveport | Louisiana | Willis Knighton Health Systems | Hip(s) | Overexertion in holding, carrying, or wielding-single episode |
An employee suffered a hip injury while moving furniture. | |||||
2019-03-18 | Boston | Massachusett | Hebrew Senior Life | Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Multiple types of overexertion involving outside sources |
An employee suffered a ruptured spleen after a day moving heavy furniture. | |||||
2019-02-23 | Kirkwood | Missouri | Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
An employee on a 6-foot ladder, cleaning an external dryer vent that was about 11.5 feet above a patio. The ladder tipped over and the employee fell; his head hit the patio furniture and then the concrete patio itself, and he briefly lost consciousness. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-02-07 | Baraboo | Wisconsin | Menard, Inc. | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Contact with objects and equipment |
While building furniture, an employee suffered a smashed finger. The finger became infected, and the employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2019-02-02 | Shorewood | Illinois | Bob's Discount Furniture | Pelvic region | Boarding, alighting-excluding slip, trip, fall-single episode |
An employee had been loading furniture into a customer's rented box truck. As the employee stepped down from the truck, they felt a pull/pain in the pelvic region. | |||||
2019-01-19 | Columbus | Ohio | American Signature Inc | Foot (feet) | Fall or jump from and struck by same vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway |
While operating a stock picker at the Value City Furniture Distribution Center, an employee's hand slipped off the steering mechanism and the stock picker veered towards racking. The employee jumped off the stock picker while it was in motion, and the machine ran over his left foot. | |||||
2018-08-20 | Perth Amboy | New Jersey | Metropolitan Warehouse & Delivery | Brain | Contact with objects and equipment |
An employee was hit on the head by the cross beam on a racking system while bringing down furniture. | |||||
2018-08-17 | Hanover | Pennsylvania | Utz Quality Foods | Nose, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was assembling office furniture when the employee contacted the blades of an adjacent ceiling fan, sustaining a broken and lacerated nose. | |||||
2018-08-17 | Amory | Mississippi | UNITED FURNITURE INDUSTRIES INC. | Hip(s) and leg(s) | Struck by rolling object or equipment being pushed by another person |
An employee was working at the dock when a second employee who was using a dolly with approximately 30 pounds of furniture bumped her. She fell to the floor, fracturing her right knee and hip. | |||||
2018-07-21 | Burlington | New Jersey | Masonic Charities Foundation | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was unloading furniture from a truck to a dumpster when an armoire fell on the employee's left hand, resulting in a finger amputation. | |||||
2018-07-21 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | ASHLEY FURNITURE INDUSTRIES, INC. | Head | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee was picking furniture with a lift when a piece of furniture fell from above, striking the employee in the head. | |||||
2018-07-11 | Bellevue | Nebraska | Coleman Worldwide Moving LLC | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was moving furniture when he started cramping, vomiting, and feeling exhausted. He was hospitalized for heat-related illness. | |||||
2018-06-14 | Pontotoc | Mississippi | American Furniture | Thigh(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was using a two-wheeled dolly to move furniture. He grabbed banding on the product to help lift it onto the dolly when the banding broke, causing him to fall backwards and injure his left thigh. | |||||
2018-06-14 | Newton | Mississippi | La-Z-Boy | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cutting wood furniture parts on a band saw when the moving blade struck and amputated the employee's left pinky finger. | |||||
2018-05-22 | Westminster | Colorado | Covenant Village of Colorado | Pelvis | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was unloading furniture from a truck. He was climbing down the back of the truck when he fell, hitting his head on the ground and fracturing his pelvis. | |||||
2018-04-22 | Northbrook | Illinois | Dania of Illinois Inc., dba Dania Furniture | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was unloading boxes of furniture from a shipping container when a large tabletop struck and knocked the employee to the floor. The employee suffered a broken left hip. | |||||
2018-01-20 | Orlando | Florida | Ahead, LLC | Coccygeal region | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was setting up a booth at a merchandise show when two furniture fixtures fell, pushing the employee to the floor and landing partially on top of him. He suffered an ear laceration and fractured tailbone. | |||||
2017-09-18 | Morgantown | West Virgini | Goodwill of North Central West Virginia | Forearm(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
While moving furniture and equipment, an employee backed through a doorway and backed into a piece of exercise equipment. The employee fell on her left arm resulting in a forearm fracture. | |||||
2017-08-21 | Bismarck | North Dakota | Big Sur Waterbeds, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet |
An employee fell approximately 10 feet from an elevated lift platform while pulling furniture to fulfill a customer order, suffering head and wrist injuries that required hospitalization. | |||||
2017-06-09 | Harker Heights | Texas | Rooms To Go | Knee(s) and leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface |
An employee was in a trailer helping to unload furniture when his foot was caught in the trailer opening. He stumbled and fell onto the floor, breaking his knee/leg. | |||||
2017-05-11 | Braselton | Georgia | Williams-Sonoma, Inc. | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee had been at work since 7:00 a.m., unpacking boxes and building furniture on the dock, when he felt dizzy and collapsed. He was hospitalized for dehydration. | |||||
2017-04-10 | Billings | Montana | Kenco Security and Technologies | Thigh(s) | Struck against stationary object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was moving furniture in the office and bumped their upper right thigh resulting in a blood clot in the thigh. The employee was hospitalized. | |||||
2017-01-23 | Norfolk | Nebraska | Apollo Retail Specialist, LLC | Tooth (teeth) | Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs |
An employee was at a residence to assemble some furniture. When he was walking to the house, he tripped on the concrete curb and hit his head/face. The employee lost some teeth and suffered contusions to face/head. | |||||
2016-09-29 | North Fort Myers | Florida | Modern Movers Inc. | Leg(s) | Fall, slip, trip |
An employee broke one of his legs while moving furniture from a house into the moving truck. | |||||
2016-09-14 | Orlando | Florida | West Coast Sales Inc. | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
While retagging furniture in an elevated lift, an employee fell from the lift and hit the ground, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-09-01 | Safety Harbor | Florida | ZRS Management, LLC | Fingertip(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment |
An employee suffered the amputation of the right ring and pinky fingertips while moving furniture when the couch fell onto his hand on 09/01/2016 at 11:00 a.m. | |||||
2016-08-19 | Midway | Florida | Haverty's Furniture | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee was delivering furniture when he started having severe cramps. He was hospitalized for dehydration. | |||||
2016-08-09 | El Paso | Texas | K & J Woodworks, LLC | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment |
An employee was cutting a flat piece of cork stock (1/8" thick from a 12"X12" section) to be used as trimming on furniture. He was having difficulty cutting the cork material because it would not slide on the table saw surface due to the cork material adhering to the table. He proceeded to apply more force, and as he attempted to push the stock into the blade, the material inadvertently folded, causing his left hand to move into the rotating blade. His left-hand pinky finger was amputated, and h | |||||
2016-08-07 | Norman | Oklahoma | U.S. Postal Service | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Overexertion involving outside sources |
On 8/7/16, at about 3:30 p.m., an employee injured his back while re-arranging office furniture, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-07-25 | Suwanee | Georgia | Two Men And A Truck | Multiple body parts | Multiple types of overexertion involving outside sources |
An employee was moving furniture and started having chest pains and pain in his left arm. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2016-07-19 | Lubbock | Texas | Eddins Furniture | Sole(s) | Stepped on object |
An employee was unboxing furniture and stepped on a nail on the furniture frame. | |||||
2016-05-21 | Wilmington | Delaware | DiSabatino Construction | Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders | Other fall to lower level |
An employee was breaking up wooden furniture on a raised loading dock and then throwing pieces into a 30-yard dumpster positioned along the dock. While attempting to throw a wooden drawer into the dumpster, the employee's right foot entered the gap between the loading dock and dumpster. He then tripped over the dumpster lip, fell forward into the dumpster, and struck his chest on the debris inside. He broke two ribs and suffered internal bleeding, requiring hospitalization. | |||||
2016-05-06 | Marshall | Missouri | Wal-mart #363 | Multiple arm locations | Fall on same level due to tripping |
An employee was walking around the corner of the furniture department, tripped and fell breaking his humerus and radius. | |||||
2016-03-04 | Charlotte | North Caroli | Habitat for Humanity Int'l | Multiple body parts | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
An employee was moving furniture when a leg broke on a china cabinet. The cabinet hit her in the head, back, and leg, causing contusions. | |||||
2016-02-08 | Ecru | Mississippi | Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc, | Head and neck | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
While removing furniture, an employee was struck by the furniture and fell backward into a metal rack, causing a neck fracture, cerebral concussion, and scalp laceration. | |||||
2016-02-05 | Arcadia | Wisconsin | Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc. | Brain | Struck by shifting load during transport, nonroadway |
An employee was operating an order picker and was struck by furniture when it fell from the order picker and pushed the employee into a mesh guard. The employee was hospitalized with a traumatic brain injury with loss of consciousness and a laceration above the right eye. | |||||
2016-01-12 | Oklahoma City | Oklahoma | Hobby Lobby | Fingernail(s), nailbed(s) | Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects |
An employee's right ring finger got caught between furniture and a template press during T-molding operations. The employee's fingernail was amputated. | |||||
2015-11-05 | Picayune | Mississippi | Rent-A-Center | Hand(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee delivering furniture suffered nerve damage to the right hand when it was caught between a sofa and the tailgate of the delivery truck. | |||||
2015-09-09 | Canyon Lake | Texas | True Blue Inc. | Shoulder(s), including clavicle(s), scapula(e) | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet |
An employee fell off of a large moving truck while moving furniture, sustaining a head laceration and dislocated shoulder. | |||||
2015-09-04 | Grand Prairie | Texas | Charter HR | Fingertip(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
An employee was moving furniture using a box truck with a hydraulic lift gate on the back. As he and a coworker raised the lift gate, he got off the lift and grabbed the side of the rail. The coworker began to operate the lift again, which caught and amputated the employee's thumb. | |||||
2015-08-15 | Boca Raton | Florida | CITY FURNITURE | Ankle(s) | Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker |
Two employees were delivering furniture to a private residence. One of the employees was inside the residence while the other stayed in the truck. The employee inside the truck slipped on a piece of plastic while moving a dresser, and the dresser fell on and fractured his right ankle. | |||||
2015-08-14 | Ashland | Kentucky | Department of Justice | Leg(s) | Fall on same level due to tripping over an object |
An employee working in the Unicor Prison Industry furniture factory walked backwards and tripped over a pallet, breaking his leg. He was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-08-04 | Pine Bluff | Arkansas | Ashley Distribution Services | Hip(s) | Fall on same level, n.e.c. |
An employee was standing on the floor of a trailer and pulling a piece of furniture. The employee lost his footing and fell to the floor of the trailer. He was unable to get back up and was hospitalized with a hip fracture. | |||||
2015-07-28 | Preston | Connecticut | Labor Ready | BODY SYSTEMS | Exposure to environmental heat |
An employee unloading furniture from a freight truck suffered heat stress and was hospitalized. | |||||
2015-04-27 | Beaumont | Texas | Labor Ready | BODY SYSTEMS | Bodily conditions, n.e.c. |
The employee was moving furniture and cleaning up at the Red Roof Inn. He finished one room, walked upstairs, and collapsed. | |||||
2015-03-10 | Jacksonville | Florida | Ebel, Inc. | Multiple body parts | Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet |
An employee was on a pallet set on top of the Daewoo forklift's forks in order to store furniture on the mezzanine. He fell 14 feet to the ground, fracturing his collar bone and lower back and sustaining trauma to his head. | |||||
2015-01-16 | Houston | Texas | Cort Furniture Rentals | Finger(s), fingernail(s) | Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment |
Employee was part of a two-man team moving furniture from a customer's location. Employees were moving a large sleep sofa to the ground level when the sofa came into contact with a metal stair rail. The injured employee's finger was between the two objects at one point, and when they came together, they severed the employee's finger below the first joint. | |||||
2015-01-12 | El Paso | Texas | Apollo Retail Specialists | Nonclassifiable | Other fall to lower level |
Employee fell from a step ladder while assembling furniture. |