Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221404890

WALMART STORES, INC.

Event
Cart, Department Store, Grocery Store, Heat, Heat Exhaustion, Heat Injury Prevention Program, Heat index, Heat-related illness, High Temperature, Illness, Injury Illness Prevention Program, Material Handling, Moving, Moving Object, Parking Lot, Retail, Retail Clerk, Retail Store
NAICS
452210
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#345598882
Employer profile
WALMART STORES, INC.
Summary number
221404890
Report ID
0950643

Event description

Employee sustains heat illness when collecting carts from ou

Investigation abstract

At 1:30 p.m. on July 3, 2021, an employee working as a retail clerk for a supermarket department store was collecting shopping carts from the parking lot. The employee began to feel ill and was hospitalized to treat a heat-related illness.

Victim

  1. #1 Hospitalized Age 17 M

    Event type
    14
    Occupation code
    365

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