So our store is down 13% compared to last year. Of course everyone knows about hours being cut. Layaway this year for Christmas has been terrible. Recently one of our vendor's slipped in our loading dock and had to be rushed to the hospital. He had to have emergency surgery to release pressure from his brain and he's been eating through a feeding tube since. My prayers to him and his family. From what I understand your store personally will be liable and have to pay whatever is necessary is that true ? What's the possibility of our store closing due to an incident such as that ?
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Similar thing happened at our store recently. Mr.Lahey runs the shoe department, he has a service dog for his PTSD (ex cop). The dog went #2 in the back one day. To save $$$ the manager took out a bunch of light bulbs so it's dark back there. Well, Rickey went back there for something and slipped on the dog #2.
The store is a Kmart
Lol - thankfully he was a vendor. Your store is fine. U see the vendor agreement his company is responsible unless you hit him with a pallet jack or a forklift.
@1zee; Back when we actually had a backroom lead, or at least enough associates to work trucks, it would be unheard of for the trailer to actually stay docked for more than a few hours between when it arrived and when it was unloaded. The turnover would actually be short enough that the driver took a nap in their cab, or schlepped around the store for a while. Now both of our docks are perpetually occupied by warehouse trailers except for a brief gap between when the new one arrives and is swapping out the empty trailer for a new one, which will often not be unloaded until just before the next one arrives. Back to the point, when we had enough people to keep the trucks coming and going on time, vendors would use our docks frequently. It was usually vendors like Coke, Pepsi, the milk one, and sometimes mattresses or other big stuff that would require a pallet jack or forklift. I don't think the OP mentioned if their store is a Sears or Kmart, but I assume Sears might still get stuff other than their DC warehouse trucks through the docks.
What was a vendor doing on the loading dock?
Considering the details you left in previous posts give the dead guys attorney all the info needed to make killing in his eventual wrongful death case, your store is 100% gone!!
His injury wasn't about me..... Our store is leased. My best bet would be that our store is at fault. One day when we were getting a truck, the truck driver backed into the building and knocked the loading dock out of place. As to where the metal side that hold the plate down is actually sticking up and could've done harm a while ago. He was just the unfortunate one that it happened to.... As I stated over a million dollars down compared to last year. Our store is a leased building. No it's not apart of the 140 ring fenced properties.
Face it, your store is going to close soon. They all are. Look for worknow, and don’t make this man’s horrible injury about you!
A claim will be opened with Sears insurance provider - Sedgwick. If it is the store’s fault (cardboard on the ground, wet floor, etc.) your store will pay for it, up to $50K. This will hit your P&L under variable expenses - insurance. If not your store’s fault and it was a personal health condition, the money will still be taken from your P&L while the case is in litigation, and once resolved you receive credit back. In terms of store closing it depends on what your EBITDA is, numbers are to LY, and if building is owned/rented, etc.
At my old store someone bypassed a safety device on the box crusher and a guy slipped while inside stomping on the boxes and got his leg injured. Not sure what the hospital cost was but he sued and they settled for around $40,000. I was told that our store was solely responsible for the loss and it would be reflected in our P & L statement.
We need more insight. Overall I heard thar stores can close to depending how the expenses vs the profits. This is going to hurt your store hospitals are expensive so you can expect a big chunk of $$$. Also if this guy might sue for more it can get pricey.
guess what. this is what sears-re is supposed to cover. sears is supposed to be self-insuring. lets see what happens.
Wow, that is unfortunate! There are so many factors. Is your store profitable? Is it owned? Are you a part of the 140 ring fence?The more attractive it is to buyers the more you have to worry.