Walgreen Co.

At 4:00 p.m. on July 3, 2023, a severe thunderstorm passed over a job site. An employee was taking shelter under a carport where batteries were stored. The carport was destroyed; flying objects struck the employee, who suffered a jaw injury and a knee injury.

An employee was struck in the head by a hockey puck while exiting the locker room. The employee sustained a laceration above their left eye.

An employee was clearing a clogged sugar chute, containing rare earth magnets inset into an aluminum bar to catch any metal in the sugar. The employee loosened the middle of three magnets and it was attracted to the outside magnet, crushing the tip of his right middle finger. The fingertip was amputated.

An employee was working in the pallet repair line when a pneumatic nail gun shot a nail into their right wrist. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery to remove the nail.

An employee was emptying a plastic bucket of soils around a newly planted tree using a hay hook to assist. The hay hook suddenly broke free of the plastic bucket and struck the employee in the right eye, resulting in blunt-force trauma injuries to their eye.