United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 22-2825 JASON BURNS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SHERWIN-WILLIAMS CO., Defendant-Appellee. ____________________

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. No. 1:19-cv-5258 — Steven C. Seeger, Judge. ____________________

ARGUED APRIL 19, 2023 — DECIDED AUGUST 15, 2023 ____________________

Before HAMILTON, BRENNAN, and KIRSCH, Circuit Judges. KIRSCH, Circuit Judge. Jason Burns, a truck driver, injured himself while delivering products to a Sherwin-Williams paint supply store. Burns and a store employee used the com- pany’s walkie—a hand-operated electric forklift—to move pallets holding the products from Burns’s truck, up a small ramp, and into the store’s warehouse. When they finished un- loading, Burns backed the walkie down the ramp in reverse to return the now-empty pallets to