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

Danny's Construction Company, Inc.

Fall from collapsing structure or equipment more than 30 feet · Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Danny's Construction Company, Inc., 414 East Clark Street, VERMILLION, SOUTH DAKOTA 57069 on — Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified, affecting the nonclassifiable.

An employee was performing steel erection connector activities when the installed bolts and/or nuts on the end of the steel I-beam failed, causing the employee to fall approximately 30 feet.

Hospitalized Nonclassifiable Nonclassifiable

Wyatt Field Service Company

An employee was adjusting a scaffold when the scaffold collapsed, causing the employee to fall approximately 145 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured pelvis and broken bones in their back.

AVISTA CORPORATION

A lineman was tied off at the top of a power pole, lowering a deactivated power line from the pole. The base of the pole broke and fell; the lineman fell approximately 40 feet, sustaining injuries to the hip and the side of his body. He was hospitalized.

PAR ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS, INC

At 1:00 p.m. on September 15, 2022, an employee was on a utility pole disconnecting its cross-arms. The pole broke and the employee fell with it onto adjacent tree branches, then to the ground 30 feet below. The employee was hospitalized for multiple contusions and fractures to the head and torso as well as internal bleeding.

Perry & Perry Builders, Inc.

An employee was installing a beam when the other beam he was using as an anchor point for his fall arrest system failed. The employee fell 45 feet to the ground, resulting in broken ribs.

E-Built

An employee was working on top of an elevator car removing counterweights. The elevator car was being lowered when the coffing hoist holding it up snapped and the elevator car and the employee fell from the 10th floor to the basement. The employee sustained broken bones.

Foundation Steel, LLC

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

Red Dot Corporation

An employee was attempting to lift a steel beam from a horizontal, stacked position to a vertical position using a crane. They had placed two hooks on the east side of the beam on the flange. As the employee was hoisting the crane, the beam began to shift and pulled the employee forward onto the stack. When the material shifted, the hooks released and the material fell, pinning the employee between the two beams. The employee was hospitalized with soft tissue contusions on their proximal right thigh and interior left thigh.

Cornell & Company, Inc.

An employee was standing on the surface of a steel beam about two feet wide. He slipped and fell backward, landing on the concrete ground about 20 feet below. The employee sustained a broken pelvis.

K Constructor, LLC

An employee was unloading a rebar delivery from a flatbed, 19-wheel trailer. The employee rigged the load with wire rope chokers. The load was picked up 3-4 feet above the trailer deck by a crane. The load began to swing and the employee grabbed onto it to prevent it from being pushed off the trailer deck. The crane continued to lift the load, and the employee let go so the crane did not lift him to the third story. The employee fell approximately 12 feet to the ground below, resulting in a back injury and fractured vertebrae.

Bowman Steel, LLC

An employee was attaching a steel angle plate weighing (approximately 200 pounds) to the end of a structural member (5,000 pounds) and was supported by dunnage. The dunnage was a crane mat (11 inches tall) with a 4x6 board on top of it and it supported five identical members. The main piece was 30.75 feet long, 37.25 feet tall, and 1 food wide. As the employee slid the piece of metal on top of the member to begin attaching it, the entire member began to tip over. The employee went to stop the main piece from tipping over and it landed on his ankle, fracturing it.

Simon Contractors of South Dakota, Inc.

An employee was moving a tensile strength test device with a dolly. The device fell from the dolly onto the employee's right leg, causing a compound fracture.

Agtegra Cooperative

An employee was walking past a crossover conveyor when a ramp came down and hit them in the back. The employee sustained a broken back vertebra, as well as a concussion, and was hospitalized.

Martin Brower Distribution Center

An employee was using a hook tool to pull a pallet onto the lift gate of a tractor trailer. The hook detached from the underside of the pallet, causing the employee to fall backward off the lift gate. The employee landed on the concrete parking lot about 5 feet below, suffering fractures to the skull and two thoracic vertebrae.

Mayfield Truss, LLC

An employee was walking on a truss table when he lost his balance and fell approximately 3 feet to the floor. The employee sustained a dislocated and fractured left ankle.