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

Ameren

Bites and stings, unspecified · Effects of heat and light, n.e.c.

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Ameren, 420 North 2400 East Road, PANA, ILLINOIS 62557 on — Effects of heat and light, n.e.c., affecting the arm(s), unspecified.

An employee suffered left arm swelling after a suspected insect bite and was later hospitalized for treatment.

Hospitalized Arm(s), unspecified Insects, arachnids, mites, unspecified

Ameren

An employee was walking along a narrow rural roadway toward the back of a digger derrick truck as another digger derrick truck was moving forward from the opposite direction, passing the parked vehicle. The employee's foot was run over by the tire of the vehicle. The employee sustained fractures to the top of the right foot and a dislocated big toe.

AMEREN

An employee was injured when he fell approximately 15 feet from a electrical pole where he was repairing a street light. The employee fractured a hip.

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EN Engineering LLC

On October 25, 2023, an employee suffered an insect bite/sting, which caused a swollen arm that required hospitalization.

Usxpress, Inc

An employee was walking around a truck at a weigh station when they suffered a spider bite on their left leg. The employee was hospitalized.

PHOENIX HOME CARE

An employee was in a client's yard when they were bitten by a bug. The employee was hospitalized for treatment.

MPS Egg Farms

An employee was walking through the chicken barn checking the chickens. They were bitten by a spider on the left shoulder and experienced a reaction to the spider bite.

American Electric Power Company

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.

Cherokee Electric Cooperative

An employee (a lineman) was working to restore power by installing a hand line when he contacted a high-voltage device (7,200 volts), resulting in electrical burns to his upper body and hands.

Centerpoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC

A chain sling failed while a utility pole was being removed. A chain link struck an employee who was operating a front-end loader, puncturing the employee's chest.

Public Service Electric & Gas

An employee was working with an underground crew to troubleshoot a BUD failure. The employee was removing a fuse from the fuse holder when the fuse blew on the riser and an arc flash occurred. The employee was hospitalized with burns to his face, nose, lips, and neck.

Bright Star Solutions, Inc

An employee was connecting two wires when his rubber insulated gloves failed and he suffered an electric shock to his right hand, resulting in an electrical burn.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.