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

High Quality Builders Inc.

Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at High Quality Builders Inc., Boyds Corner/Bayberry, MIDDLETOWN, DELAWARE 19709 on — Fractures, affecting the nonclassifiable.

An employee fell approximately 15 feet from a deck being constructed and broke multiple bones.

Hospitalized Nonclassifiable Porches, balconies, decks, patios

ADM

The employee was on top of a rail car to level the grain that was deposited into the car when they fell 13-15 feet to the ground. The employee sustained a right leg fracture.

International Game Technology

An employee was on an extension ladder installing a satellite dish on a roof when they fell approximately 12-15 feet to the ground. The employee sustained fractures.

WW Gay Mechanical Contractor, Inc.

An employee was setting a 5-foot pry bar into a precast concrete slab and stood on the end of the pry bar to move the slab into place. The pry bar slipped out causing the employee to fall backward 15.5 feet to the dirt ground. The employee was hospitalized with a broken leg.

Konecranes, Inc.

An employee was on a step ladder to measure and mark a crane rail for modification. The employee fell approximately 12 to 15 feet to the ground, resulting in a fractured right hip.

Maximus Group

An employee was on a trailer securing a load of logs when they fell approximately 9-12 feet to the ground. The employee sustained brain hemorrhaging and lacerations to the thigh and above the eye. The employee was hospitalized.

RG Professional Carpenter, Inc.

The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

Olandez Construction

An employee was on a 6-foot ladder, working to nail a 2-by-4 on a hotel carport ceiling. He lost his balance and his muddy boots slipped. He then fell and his foot lodged in the ladder. His foot was broken in two places and he was hospitalized.

GGC Remodeling Inc

An employee was installing a ceiling joist for a residential home when they fell from a framing structure and landed on the ground 8 feet below. The employee's right arm was fractured.

Skyline Quality Services LLC

On September 16, 2025, a employee was moving a dolly with seven drywall sheets. The wheel of the dolly got stuck. The material tipped over and fell onto the employee's left foot, fracturing their tibia.

D Wittig Builders, LLC

An employee was installing 80-foot-long trusses onto a 150-foot by 80-foot post-frame building. The employee worked from the north lift and then on the trusses about 20 feet up to install bracing. While installing diagonal bracing on the top chord, the trusses collapsed, causing the employee to fall approximately 20 feet to the concrete and be struck by the falling trusses. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and a concussion.

Greggo & Ferrara, Inc.

A flagger was directing traffic flow in a highway work zone. They were standing approximately 1.5 feet behind the shoulder's demarcating line, next to and slightly behind a traffic drum. As they were directing traffic into and out of the driveway of a parking lot, a car attempted to get around a truck and struck the traffic drum, which subsequently struck the employee, who was thrown 15 feet and landed on top of concrete aggregate. The employee suffered pelvic and rib fractures, T10 and L3 vertebra fractures, and internal bleeding.

GREGGO AND FERRARA, INC.

An employee was troubleshooting a power washer in the field. Because there might have been water in its fuel, he brought it back to the shop and drained about a gallon of fuel from the tank into a plastic container. Some of the fuel spilled onto the floor and ignited. The employee was stomping out the fire when he lost his balance and tripped into a stool, which caused the plastic container to spill more fuel onto the fire. The employee's pants and shirt caught on fire, and he fell, abrading his knee while trying to get through the flames. As well as the knee abrasion, he suffered burns to the left leg and left lower quadrant of the torso. He was hospitalized.

CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES, INC.

An employee was backing up a tram (towing powered industrial equipment) to connect it to a trash bin. The employee's left forearm/wrist was caught and crushed between the tram and the bin. The employee was hospitalized.

HomeGoods ,LLC-Newark, DE

An employee went to lift a carton and tripped on a different carton that was on the floor. She fell on the floor in the backroom and sustained a fractured right hip, and abrasions to her arm and knee. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

NKS Distributors

An employee was conducting a delivery of beverage products and began having cramps due to dehydration. The employee was hospitalized.