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

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard

Self-inflicted injury-unintentional or intent unknown, n.e.c. · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Pier J, Aboard CVN 70 Carl Vinson, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 92135 on — Fractures, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.

Two employees got into a verbal altercation. One employee packed up his gear and was leaving the vessel. The employee punched a steel I-beam on his way out, fracturing his right hand.

Hospitalized Hand(s), unspecified Person-injured or ill worker, n.e.c.

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard

An employee was opening a scuttle on the third deck of an aircraft carrier. The scuttle quickly opened and pinched the employee's finger against a scaffold, resulting in a finger laceration and fractures.

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard

An employee was walking toward a stack of wood to remove a tag for material tracking. He slipped on ice and fell, suffering broken ribs.

PUGET SOUND NAVAL SHIPYARD

An employee was working near a drive shaft on a naval vessel. He ducked under the propulsion shaft and his hard hat struck the shaft causing a broken vertebra in his neck. He was hospitalized.

PUGET SOUND NAVAL SHIPYARD

An employee was walking when he tripped over the tines of a parked forklift and broke his right femur, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

PUGET SOUND NAVAL SHIPYARD

An employee was using a pocket knife to cut open a large sack when the sack slipped and the knife amputated his fingertip.

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ATP Huntsville, LLC

At a trampoline park, an employee was doing a front flip on a trampoline and landed on his neck, sustaining a fractured vertebra.

Price Chopper

Two employees were fighting when one of them stabbed himself with a sharp blade. He was hospitalized.

UPS

During horseplay in a trailer, an employee attempted a backflip and landed on his face. He suffered severe facial lacerations, as well as a fractured and dislocated jaw.

Cimpl Meats

An employee shot himself in the leg with a cattle knock gun, breaking his femur.

Ingalls Shipbuilding

An employee was hooking up bundled tie-downs with a chain. While he was holding a hook, the other hook was unlocked. This caused the employee's hook to slide down and pinch his right index finger between the chain and the shackle. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip (without bone loss), as well as an open fracture.

Electric Boat Corporation

An employee was struck by a plasma cutter and suffered a broken left tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized.

Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc

An employee was preparing to bend a flat bar in a brake press. When the machine was jogged, the stock rotated up and crushed his left middle fingertip against the outer frame of the die. The fingertip was amputated.

All Star Metals, LLC

An employee was cutting metal with a torch. A piece of metal struck the employee's left foot, causing multiple fractures to metatarsal(s). The employee was hospitalized.

Ingalls Shipbuilding, Inc

An employee was descending a ladder carrying a bag of trash. He fell, landed on the ground about 10 feet below, and suffered fractures to his right hip and pelvis.

Department of Justice - USMS

The injured employee was assisting a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) enforcement operation. During an apprehension, officers returned fire at a subject and struck the employee with a bullet. The employee sustained a gunshot wound to their right hand.

M1 Support Services

The injured employee was assisting in the disassembly phase after a radar array had been lowered and secured. The crew began removing load bearing pins from an overhead crane to free the radome. A load bearing pin was stuck. The injured employee went to remove the pin manually as a second team member applied pressure from the opposite side. The pin unexpectedly released and struck the injured employee s right thumb, resulting in partial amputation of the distal phalanx including an open distal phalanx fracture and nail bed laceration.

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.

Sycuan Casino Resort

An employee was preparing a bundle of green onions for chopping. While holding the bundle in his left hand, he made his first cut using a 9-inch kitchen knife held in his right hand. The knife contacted the tip of his left thumb, resulting in an amputation of approximately 0.5 inches of the thumb that required hospitalization.