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

Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Patrol

Nonvenomous insect bites · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Patrol, Intersection of Indiana and Oklahoma , BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS 78521 on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the nonclassifiable.

A Border Patrol Agent was bitten by a tick and eventually required hospitalization.

Hospitalized Nonclassifiable Ticks and mites

Department of Homeland Security- Customs and Border Patrol

An employee sustained a back injury during an ATV training event. The employee was operating the ATV up a berm, lost control and was ejected backwards off the ATV onto the ground as the nose of the ATV continued in a forward motion.

Department of Homeland Security-Customs and Border Patrol

An agent was climbing a fence to inspect an abandoned house for illegal aliens when he was attacked by a dog. The agent fell off the fence striking his head and possibly receiving a concussion due to his inability to remember any details of the event.

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BriteView Landscape Services

While conducting landscaping, an employee was bitten by an insect. The employee sustained an infection.

Inline Plastics Corp.

An employee was bitten on the leg by a spider while cleaning cobwebs and developed an infection.

Pratt & Whitney

An employee was bitten by an insect. The bite became infected, and the employee was hospitalized.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY

On May 24, 2019, an employee was bitten by a spider. The employee was hospitalized the next day when the bite became infected.

Westin Fort Lauderdale

An insect bit an employee who was working at a caf . The bite became infected, and the employee was hospitalized.

Naval Station Mayport

An employee was activating the sprinkler system at a sports complex following recent maintenance to repair leaky pumps. When the system was activated, a section of newly installed 3-inch schedule 80 PVC pipe struck the employee, who lost consciousness. The employee suffered a broken jaw and a concussion.

National Security Agency

An employee was ascending a flight of stairs after exiting their vehicle in an adjacent employee parking lot. The employee stepped to the right to avoid another employee on the left who was descending the stairs. The employee lost their balance and fell on the stairs. They were hospitalized with a laceration/abrasion to their chin, a fractured left humerus, and bruising to their left knee.

Dept. of Defense - USN

An employee was working on an electrical panel in a mechanical room when an arc flash occurred. The employee suffered burns.

Dept. of Homeland Security - CBP

At about 3:10 p.m. on October 3, 2025, an employee was inspecting a car. Two dogs that had been in another car were leashed and tethered to a bollard. As the employee inspected the first car along with a narcotics detection dog, one of the other dogs came loose and attacked the narcotics dog. The employee was separating the dogs when the other dog bit his left ring finger. The last joint of the finger was injured and part of it was bitten off.

National Air and Space Intelligence Center

An employee was climbing a fixed ladder to perform maintenance in an attic. While unlocking the attic entry, the employee fell from the ladder more than 10 feet to the concrete below. The employee suffered a fractured hip, pelvis, tail bone, arm, and elbow, resulting in hospitalization and surgery.

T G Meat Center LLC

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

Professional Flooring Supply

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

EnviroSafe Demil LLC

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

Inteplast Group

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

Regency IHS of Fairwinds Halletsville, LLC

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.