Work Injury Lawyer – A Dallas Walmart Worker Suffers an Amputation Injury-Pt.2
Kroger is another big box store that is likely not a subscriber to the workers’ compensation program in Texas, same as Walmart, Amazon, Home Depot, and Lowe’s. There was a serious work injury at a Kroger store in November 2021, as there was at the aforementioned Walmart in Dallas. However, a distinction between the two is that, following the Texas work accident at The Kroger Company in Houston, Texas, there was an inspection.
After inspectors with the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) visited the Houston Kroger, the store was cited for three alleged safety violations. Kroger faced initial penalties totaling $43,506.
A Kroger Employee in Houston, Texas, Suffers a Serious Texas Work Injury
At The Kroger Company at 701 Gellhorn, Houston Texas 77029, an employee allegedly sustained serious work injuries on November 5, 2021. The company’s NAICS Code is 445110, which is no different from the Dallas Walmart store.
The OSHA summary of the Texas workplace accident at the Houston Kroger follows:
- An employee with the Kroger company on Gellhorn in Houston was operating a reach truck on November 5, 2021, when a work accident occurred. The task that the employee was performing at the time as the reach truck operator was to dispose of a scrap walkie-rider by placing it into an open-top dumpster. The surface that the reach truck was operating on was damaged and uneven, and the load being carried was elevated. The reach truck overturned, resulting in multiple injuries. The employee’s head struck the concrete surface, which resulted in a head contusion. In addition, the employee suffered 5 broken ribs.
Learn more in Part 1 and this ongoing series.
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