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

Georgia Aquarium

Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Georgia Aquarium, 225 Baker Street NW, ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30313 on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.

An employee was hospitalized after a cownose stingray embedded a piece of barb in the employee's right hand.

Hospitalized Hand(s), unspecified Fish, shellfish

NorAm Drilling Company

An employee was assisting with pipe on a drilling rig. The slips came down and landed on the employee's left foot fracturing four metatarsals.

Stalworth Underground LLC

Two employees were struck by the rotary table of a drilling rig while installing caisson. Employee 1 suffered multiple fractures, internal injuries, and head trauma. Employee 2 suffered multiple fractures, internal injuries, spinal injury, and head trauma.

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior

Employees were felling hazard trees. The injured employee was conducting 'bucking' operations to saw a tree from the road when the tree kicked-back, pinning him against the ground and fracturing his left femur. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

HT Energy LLC

An employee was greasing tongs on a work-over rig. The tongs lacerated one of the employee's fingers.

TKM BENGARD FARMS, LLC

An employee was chaining a vehicle when he had to change tools and the compressor. As the compressor was being charged, the employee stepped near the vehicle to make sure the compressor was attached. Then, he instructed a co-worker to lower the compressor. His right hand was on the compressor and under the chain, causing his ring finger to be crushed.

University of Miami

An employee was cutting wood on a table saw for the fabrication of a drawer and sustained an amputation of the tip of the left thumb without bone loss.

Speeler Companies, Inc.

An employee was unloading wood piling from a light-duty trailer. The piling rolled off the side of the trailer and pinned the employee against the ground. The employee sustained a fractured tibia that required surgery.

The Meadows Foundation

An employee was installing a splitter on a TV cable while on an A-frame ladder when he fell, resulting in a head injury that required hospitalization.

The Research Foundation for SUNY

An employee was replacing a membrane in the reverse osmosis system and partially amputated two fingers.

Black Belt Community Foundation

An employee was helping to load food boxes onto a school bus when he became overheated. He was hospitalized.

GS II Building Products, Inc.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

US Battery Manufacturing Company, Inc

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

Alfa Insurance

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

Bull Moose Tube

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.