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

Perfecto PlumbingCo., Inc.

Excavation or trenching cave-in · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Perfecto PlumbingCo., Inc., 1438 86th Sreet, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 11228 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.

An employee was tying off pipes in a partial trench when the trench buried the employee's leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Leg(s), unspecified Ditches, channels, trenches, excavations

All South Electrical Constructors Inc.

An employee was doing electrical work in a trench when one of the trench walls caved in. The employee was struck by the soil and sustained fractures to their ribs and pelvis.

Glen O Hawbaker

An employee was working in a 4-foot-deep trench. A clay section of the trench wall fell in and struck her back. She suffered fractured vertebrae.

Austin Engineering Company, Inc.

An employee was in a 4-foot excavation laying pipe. The ditch gave way, falling onto the employee and fracturing his hip.

Sal Construction Management, LLC

An employee was kneeling in a 4-foot deep hole trying to fix a leak in the waterline. The sidewalls were wet and the dirt fell from behind the employee onto his left side and crushed him against the pipe. The employee was hospitalized for an injured liver.

MD Dirt LLC

Employees were checking a trench box for removal when the wall caved in, burying the employees. One employee was hospitalized for 8 rib fractures and a shoulder fracture. The other employee was also hospitalized.

Plumb Supply Company

An employee lost his footing while climbing an inclined ladder. He stumbled down one step and was able to stabilize himself by holding the railing and twisting his body, but he suffered an internal abdominal injury and was hospitalized.

Green Art Plumbing Supply

A delivery driver was delivering supplies. He fell off his flatbed truck and struck his head. He was hospitalized.

Atlanta Winsupply

Equipment was being brought back online after a break-in and vandalism. An arc flash occurred when an employee cycled a 480-volt circuit breaker. The employee suffered burns to the face and hands.

Kansas City Winnelson

An employee was unloading an 8-inch ducting pipe when the pipe rolled and crushed their legs. The employee sustained fractures to both ankle.

F.W. Webb Company

An employee was lifting the liftgate on the rear of his delivery truck after making a delivery when his right hand was caught in the liftgate. The employee sustained four fractured fingers.

Garden Angels New York LLC

An employee was cleaning leaves with a backpack blower when he fell from a ladder, resulting in injuries to his head, neck, and back.

Cashless Tolling Constructors

An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.

NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

VILLAGER CONSTRUCTION, INC.

An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.