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

WILLIAMSVILLE, NEW YORK—

Five West Enterprises Inc.

Climbing or stepping up or down-single episode · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

At a glance

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Five West Enterprises Inc., 35 California Dr., WILLIAMSVILLE, NEW YORK 14221 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the lumbar region.

Final narrative

An employee felt dull pain as he was going down the stairs at a customer's home. A week later he was hospitalized with a possible herniated disc.

Hospitalized Lumbar region Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker

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