Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221449929

LOWE'S HOME IMPROVEMENT

Event
Fall, Fall From Elevation, Fall Protection, Head, Order-picker
NAICS
444110
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#345871693
Employer profile
LOWE'S HOME IMPROVEMENT
Summary number
221449929
Report ID
0625400

Event description

Employee falls from shelving, later dies

Investigation abstract

At 12:00 p.m. on February 2, 2022, an employee was operating a self-propelled stock picker. The employee stepped off of the stock picker onto shelving that was approximately 16 feet high to retrieve a toilet. The employee was not wearing any fall protection while on the shelving and fell off of the shelving to ground level, which was approximately a 16 foot fall. The employee had serious head injuries that lead to a fatality several days after the incident.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 68 M

    Event type
    5
    Occupation code
    266

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