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

U Haul

Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at U Haul, 3500 South Orange Ave., ORLANDO, FLORIDA 32806 on — Fractures, affecting the ankle(s).

An employee was trying to move a trailer with a trailer dolly. The trailer slipped off the dolly, causing the dolly to fall on and fracture his ankle.

Hospitalized Ankle(s) Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered

U-Haul

An employee was working from a 10-foot ladder, pulling old telephone wires in a ceiling. The employee fell off the ladder and suffered a concussion, a small brain bleed, and a dislocated left hand.

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Performance Contractors, Inc.

An employee was moving a piece of an I-beam for welding when it rolled off the cribbing. The employee went to catch it when it fell and crushed the employee's finger, resulting in a partial amputation.

WIRECO WORLDGROUP, INC.

An employee was helping to disassemble large reels used to store steel wire when a 264-pound flange from the reel fell over onto the employee's left leg. The employee sustained multiple fractures to their leg and ligament injuries to the lower leg.

Owens & Minor - Pittsburgh Distribution Center

The injured employee was putting away materials on the warehouse floor as a co-worker was pushing a pallet onto a nearby shelf. The pallet knocked another pallet forward, causing it to fall onto the injured employee's shoulders. The employee suffered fractures in their right and left knees and ankles.

Retro Tech Systems

Employees were moving a single man lift into a building and reclining the lift to position it to fit through the door. The lift shifted and fell, causing the employee to sustain fractures to the left tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

Creston Energy Group

An employee was moving a light tower so it could be hitched to a truck. He grabbed the tongue of the trailer hitch on the light tower to slide it to the left. The tongue jack fell off, causing the light tower tongue to drop on the employee's right hand. The employee's middle fingertip was amputated.

EnerStar Rentals & Services, LTD

An employee was working on disassembling and moving a trailer house from a gas well pad. The employee was on the roof of the structure installing flashing. The employee fell to the ground below, sustaining a skull fracture and brain bleed. The employee was hospitalized.

Penske Truck Rental

An employee was working on a truck when the truck's door fell on his hand, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger.

U-Haul Company of Saint Louis

The injured employee had been working on the computer at the front desk in the showroom. An argument occurred with another employee and additional people got involved. Gunshots were fired. The employee was shot in the hip and was hospitalized.

Ryder Truck Rental

An employee was preparing to remove leaf spring bushings on the front drive axle of a tandem axle tractor. After raising the axle with a hydraulic jack, he placed two jack stands under the rear frame rails of the tractor and placed additional jack stands under the front drive axle. He then repositioned himself at the rear of the tractor where he reached for the release valve of the jack to begin lowering the axle (and frame) onto the jack stands. He was in a kneeling position while using his right hand to operate the release valve. His left hand was caught between the lowering frame rail and a jack stand. His left ring and middle fingertips were crushed, resulting in amputations.

DRIFTWOOD NURSERY & LANDSCAPING, INC

An employee was helping a coworker transport a tall palm tree with a mini skid steer. The employee was severely shocked by a high-voltage electrical wire above the ground.

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

An employee was retrieving a Christmas tree from a shelf using a ladder. He missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained injury to his head and wrist.

Envelope Seal Insulation, Inc

An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida

An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.

Air-flo/Erwood Heating & Air Conditioning

An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.