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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Direct TV

Fall on same level due to slipping · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Direct TV, 3212 Garden Grove Parkway, HUTCHINSON, KANSAS 67502 on — Fractures, affecting the ankle(s).

While installing cable at a residence, an employee slipped on ice while walking on the concrete sidewalk to his work truck. He broke his right ankle and had surgery.

Hospitalized Ankle(s) Sidewalk, path, outdoor walkway-paved

AT & T

An employee was stepping out of a car when they slipped and fell on ice, resulting in a femur fracture.

REYNOLDS FORD NORMAN

An employee was closing up for the weekend when they slipped on oil and brake fluid and fell. The employee suffered a leg fracture.

The Westervelt Company

An employee was working in the forest flagging an area to be harvested. He took a step and his foot slipped on a stick hidden under the leaves, causing him to fall to the ground. He landed on his right foot/lower leg resulting in a fractured tibia.

The Wyndmoor of Marion (OH), LLC

An employee was inspecting an apartment to ensure it was ready for a new resident to move in. The carpet in the apartment had been recently cleaned and was still wet. As the employee went from the carpet to the tiled floor of the bathroom, they slipped and fell, resulting in a torn left hamstring.

U.S. Postal Service

An employee was delivering a letter along a rural carrier route when she stepped on an ice-covered snow drift, slipped, and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a right hip fracture that required surgery.

CoxCom, LLC

An employee was descending a ladder that was on a strand when the ladder shifted, causing the employee to jump off and fall about 5.5 feet to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured right ankle.

Bellsouth Telecommunications, LLC

An employee was cutting boxes using a box cutting tool and lacerated an artery in their wrist. The employee was hospitalized.

CoxCom, LLC

An employee was removing 2,500-foot reels of 1 cable-in-conduit (CIC) weighing ~1,022 lbs. from the back of an enclosed delivery truck. The employee was manually rolling a reel off the truck when another reel shifted and rolled forward, crushing his right hand between the two reels. The employee's right ring finger was partially amputated without loss of bone.

Mediacom Communications LLC

An employee was on an extension ladder working to replace a service line to a customer's home. The existing service line broke, causing him to fall off the ladder. He was hospitalized with a dislocated elbow and fractures in his left wrist requiring surgery.

AT&T Services INC.

An employee stepped on a traffic cone while walking to a truck. The employee slipped and fell, suffered a fractured and possibly dislocated ankle, and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Omya Inc.

An employee was working to remove a product blockage from a piece of equipment. The employee was struck by a metal bar near the deck of the pin mixer equipment and sustained blunt force trauma to the torso.

John Deere Coffeyville Works

An employee was moving a rack onto a lower conveyor in the south heat treat area when their finger got caught between the part tray and the rollers, resulting in a fingertip fracture and amputation.

Haven Steel Products Inc

An employee was climbing a ladder to get on top of the breakroom. The ladder slipped, causing him to fall to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to his upper back, left foot, and ankle.

Vestas-American Wind Tech

Two employees were removing a circuit breaker. The injured employee was using wrenches in the removal process. One of the wrenches contacted an adjacent door, resulting in an arc flash. The employee suffered burns to their neck, face, and ear, as well as momentary vision loss due to the flash.

Alliance Ag and Grain LLC

An employee bent over to pick up a rubber mat from the ground. When he grabbed the corner of the mat, a rattlesnake hidden under it bit his left middle finger near the first knuckle. He was hospitalized.