105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Fed Ex

Struck by rolling object or equipment-other than powered vehicle, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Fed Ex, 347 Metroplex Rd., NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07114 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the multiple foot (feet) locations.

A material handler employee's foot was run over by a large aluminum air craft container.

Hospitalized Multiple foot (feet) locations Containers-nonpressurized, n.e.c.

Fed Ex

An employee was loading a drop-frame trailer which has static rollers down the center that are positioned up against a metal platform at the end of the trailer. The employee stepped on the rollers and due to a missing roller, her leg went through a gap. Her left knee/leg was lacerated by the metal bars holding the rollers in place, resulting in hospitalization.

Fed Ex

An employee stepped into the nose of a drop-frame trailer to cross to the other side. The open rollers caused him to lose his footing and fall. He suffered abdominal injury.

Fed Ex

An employee was walking to the front of a trailer when she tripped over the rollers in the trailer and fell to the ground, breaking her right ankle.

Fed Ex

An employee was trying to remove a cat from a warehouse. The cat bit the employee's knuckle.

Fed Ex

An employee was climbing a ladder and fell to the floor.

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Walmart #4357

An employee had been assisting a customer when they were struck by a grocery cart and required hip surgery.

Contract Erectors, Inc.

During rigging operations, a steel beam rolled onto an employee's lower left leg. The employee suffered a broken tibia and fibula.

WELSPUN TUBULAR LLC

On December 4, 2023, at 12:30 PM, an employee was grinding a pipe. The stops on the skid failed and a pipe rolled backward onto the employee. The employee was hospitalized with bruising and contusions of the right leg.

UPS Customer Center

An employee was connecting two dollies together when his left middle finger was crushed by a dolly, resulting in a partial amputation.

U.S. Postal Service - Placerville

An employee was loading mail into a delivery vehicle and when their little finger was caught between a mail hamper and the metal door of the vehicle, resulting in partial amputation of the finger.

Federal Express Corporation

An employee was moving a large package from a slide when her left arm got caught between the slide (tilt tray) and the package. She was hospitalized with a fractured left arm.

Parsec LLC

An employee was operating a switch truck at a rail yard. He got out of the switch truck to unlock a container that was attached to a unit in front of him. The switch truck rolled and pinned the employee against the container. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis, a ruptured spleen, and a possible spinal cord injury.

Parsec LLC

An employee was sidestepping along the catwalk of a railcar when he lost his balance and fell approximately 4 feet to the ground. The employee's right hip was fractured.

UPS

An employee was working to realign the two top sections of a set of collapsible rollers (trailer-on-flatcar rollers). The rollers suddenly fell into place and pinched her left index fingertip against the lower sections. She suffered a partial amputation to the fingertip.

Bloom Logistics, Inc.

An employee was delivering a package. A dog bit the employee in the abdominal area, and the employee was hospitalized.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.