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ATLANTA — Dec. 23, 2025 — A federal lawsuit filed in the Northern District of Georgia is drawing attention to conditions inside HD Supply’s GA02 warehouse in Forest Park, Georgia, where a former employee alleges a forklift battery incident caused injury and led to disputed employment decisions. The case, Hall v. HD Supply, Inc., No. 1:25‑cv‑06567 (N.D. Ga.), is part of a broader wave of coverage of the HD Supply lawsuit involving alleged forklift safety issues, discrimination, and retaliation at the company’s 2100 Anvil Block Road facility just south of Atlanta.
According to publicly available descriptions of the complaint, including case‑tracking summaries and secondary reports, plaintiff Quinton J. Hall alleges that HD Supply’s GA02 Forest Park distribution center is a high‑volume warehouse with long aisles of racking, frequent forklift traffic, pallet jacks moving freight, and battery‑powered equipment cycling in and out of chargers. Hall’s lawsuit characterizes this facility as the focal point of his HD Supply forklift claims, asserting that conditions inside the building form the basis of an alleged HD Supply unsafe warehouse.
Hall states that while operating a forklift at GA02 on June 27, 2024, he noticed the battery compartment running unusually hot and producing smoke. He alleges that the situation escalated until the forklift’s battery area overheated and released smoke and fumes on the active warehouse floor, prompting him to deploy two fire extinguishers. Hall contends that this incident left him disoriented and with a permanent back injury that he describes as permanent, and he links that injury to later disputes over accommodations, job assignments, and termination that are central to the HD Supply lawsuit.
In placing the alleged battery failure inside the GA02 Forest Park warehouse, Hall’s complaint locates the incident within what he describes as a key node in HD Supply’s national distribution network rather than in a remote maintenance area. He alleges that this specific facility is where the forklift event occurred, where his back injury was sustained, and where the sequence of alleged denied accommodations, unequal treatment, hostile work environment, and eventual termination began. HD Supply has denied wrongdoing in its answer and contests Hall’s account.
Although the lawsuit focuses on a single Georgia warehouse, it names HD Supply Holdings, Inc., a major industrial distributor with operations across the United States. Founded in 1974, HD Supply is described in company and industry materials as one of the nation’s largest distributors serving construction, maintenance, and institutional customers.
Publicly available information indicates that HD Supply’s core business lines include:
HD Supply HVAC products and systems for residential and commercial projects.
HD Supply flooring materials, tools, and installation supplies.
HD Supply appliances for multifamily housing, hospitality, and commercial properties.
HD Supply facility maintenance, inventory, and repair solutions for a range of commercial and institutional clients.
In addition to its physical network of distribution centers, HD Supply operates an e‑commerce platform often referred to as HD Supply online shopping, offering ordering and account‑management tools to contractors, government agencies, property managers, and maintenance professionals nationwide. The company also promotes HD Supply net 30 accounts, a trade‑credit program that allows qualified customers to purchase materials on 30‑day invoicing terms, a standard short‑term financing mechanism in the construction and property‑management sectors.
HD Supply maintains multiple locations across the country and employs thousands of workers. Public job‑posting and company‑careers materials show that the HD Supply careers portal regularly lists openings in logistics, warehouse operations, supply‑chain management, sales, and corporate roles.
The Hall v. HD Supply case is one of several public reports using the “HD Supply lawsuit” framing to describe Hall’s claims of forklift battery hazards, alleged discrimination, and alleged retaliation at the GA02 Forest Park site. According to docket summaries, Hall filed his complaint in November 2025, asserting federal claims including disability discrimination, failure to accommodate, race discrimination, retaliation, and hostile work environment, as well as state‑law theories such as defamation and wrongful termination.
HD Supply has responded with an Answer and Defenses and a partial motion to dismiss, asking the court to dismiss certain state‑law claims—specifically, wrongful termination/retaliatory discharge and defamation—on legal sufficiency grounds, while other parts of the HD Supply lawsuit continue. At this stage, the federal court has not made factual findings regarding the forklift battery allegations or the conditions inside the GA02 warehouse, and the claims in Hall v. HD Supply, Inc. remain allegations that will be tested through motion practice, discovery, and any subsequent trial proceedings.
Contributor: Michael Saponara
