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

United States Steel Corporation

Exposure to environmental heat · Effects of heat and light, unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at United States Steel Corporation, 20TH AND STATE STREET, GRANITE CITY, ILLINOIS 62040 on — Effects of heat and light, unspecified, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.

An employee working on a furnace experienced heat-related stomach and leg cramps and was hospitalized.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Heat-environmental

United States Steel Corporation

An employee was working near molten metal and experienced heat illness symptoms including cramps. The employee was hospitalized.

United States Steel Corporation

An employee was cleaning a coke oven standpipe when a spark contacted his shirt, resulting in burns to his stomach.

United States Steel Corporation

An employee was working on the blast furnace during his shift. After his shift, he began experiencing cramping and was hospitalized for dehydration.

United States Steel Corporation

An employee was working with a mixer. The employee fell through a floor hole to a platform 20 feet below the mixer, suffering a fractured pelvis and fractured vertebrae. The employee was hospitalized.

United States Steel Corporation

An employee was completing a roll change. As he reached out to stop the movement of a roll chock coming down the incline, his left hand was pinched between two roll chocks. His index finger was amputated.

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Great Northwest Concrete

An employee was performing finishing work on a residential driveway when they began to experience body cramps and were hospitalized for heat stress and dehydration.

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An employee was staking tomato plants on a farm. The employee began to feel sick and collapsed, suffering from dehydration and heat shock.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

An agent was participating in SWAT team selection and was performing various physical fitness skills including running and exercise intervals. The agent experienced dehydration and a muscular injury that required hospitalization.

Hi-Tech Roofing & Sheetmetal, Inc.

An employee was traveling back from work when they became ill and experienced dizziness due to heat exhaustion.

2911 Logistics

On September 26, 2023, an employee was delivering packages when he began to feel ill with a pain in his side. He was hospitalized for heat exhaustion and dehydration.

Universal Stainless & Alloy Products Inc.

An employee used a crane to set down a bar. The bar measured 9 inches by 16 feet. The strap got stuck under the bar, and the employee asked another employee to jog the roll. The bar rolled and pinched the injured employee's left hand, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Priefert Manufacturing

An employee was loading a steel forming machine with steel to be processed. He went to move a cooling hose out of the way and his left thumb was crushed by the forming roller, resulting in injuries that required surgical amputation.

CF&I Steel L.P.

An employee was advancing a rail to line up for welding with a secondary rail on the weld line when his right middle and ring fingers were caught between the rails. The employee sustained an amputation to the top knuckle of the middle finger and a fracture to the ring finger. The machine was guarded at the time.

United States Steel Corporation

An employee was working near molten metal and experienced heat illness symptoms including cramps. The employee was hospitalized.

Tampa Bay Steel, LLC

An employee was preparing bundles of 24-foot square metal tubing to be loaded onto a truck and cut the safety band for a bundle. While the employee was removing a piece of dunnage from a bundle, they bumped the bundle with their leg. The metal tubing then fell forward and struck the employee, causing a fractured left ankle.

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.