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

Wendy's

Contact with hot objects or substances · Burns and corrosions, unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Wendy's, 191 Newport Avenue, QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS 02170 on — Burns and corrosions, unspecified , affecting the hand(s), unspecified.

An employee was cleaning a fryer with a brush. The brush fell into the fryer, splashing hot oil on and burning the employee's hand.

Hospitalized Hand(s), unspecified Fats, oils, cooking greases

Wendy's

An employee was walking to get a product when they slipped and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured left wrist.

Wendy's

An employee fell from a chair. The employee's right arm struck a safe mounted to the floor, and the employee suffered injuries to the right arm, lower back, and right hip.

Wendy's

An employee was retrieving a pan of chili meat and hot water that had been cooking inside the microwave. The pan slipped out of her hands and hot chili spilled over her left arm and hand. She sustained first and second degree burns.

Wendy's

An employee was carrying a box of lettuce from the delivery truck to the walk-in cooler when the employee experienced pain in the right hip/nerve damage.

Wendy's

An employee tripped and fell while preparing fast food orders, injuring the left ankle.

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OQ Chemicals

An employee connected a steam line to a hose to clean equipment when the fitting broke loose. They were struck by steam in the left inner thigh, resulting in burns that required hospitalization.

Husbe Zoaq

An employee was straining hot water from a pot of rice when the water splashed onto them, resulting in burns to their chest, arms, shoulder, and back.

The Cumberland Rest Inc. dba Trinity Terrace

An employee was making tea when she noticed tea grinds were collecting on the side and water was no longer dripping through the funnel. The employee was checking the funnel when boiling water and tea grinds spilled onto the left side of her body. The employee sustained burns to her neck, back, and arm.

Mueller & Wilson Inc

An employee had turned off the ball valve on a waterpipe system and was removing the plug when the coupling system attached to the strainer came apart. Hot water sprayed on his arm and back, resulting in first- and second-degree burns that required surgery.

Oklahoma Steel & Wire Co., LLC

An employee was using a shovel to remove waste vermiculite from molten zinc. The metal had been placed in a bin and partially hardened. The employee broke through the partially hardened metal; still-molten metal flowed to the employee's steel-toed right boot and entered through the cloth boot tongue. The employee suffered a third-degree burn to the right foot and was hospitalized.

Waffle House, Inc.

An employee's hand was on a door frame when the door slammed shut. Her left little finger was amputated at the first joint.

Steward Group Management, Inc.

An employee slipped on the floor while walking into the refrigerator and fell, resulting in a broken ankle.

Portillo's Hot Dogs, LLC

An employee was placing stabilizing bars on the fryer when his arm slipped into the hot oil causing burns to his left hand, wrist, and forearm.

WendSchmidt Ohio

An employee tripped on a curb and suffered a broken arm.

Portillo's Hot Dogs, LLC

An employee was walking through the gravy cooler when he slipped. His left hand went into one of the pots containing hot gravy. The employee was hospitalized with second degree burns to the left forearm and blisters.

A&S Services Group

An employee fell while exiting a trailer. The employee landed on their left side on the pavement, suffering multiple broken ribs on the left side. The employee was hospitalized.

American Flowform and Machining, LLC

Two employees were setting up a mandrel in the spindle of a machine. The mandrel was side-shifted while an employee's hand was on the mast of a powered industrial truck. The employee suffered crushing injuries that resulted in amputations to the middle and ring fingertips.

Acushnet Rubber Company, Inc

An employee had been loading a double deck press. The employee saw a mold had been sent in with the C-hook still attached on the belly bar. As he went to remove the hook from the mold, his right thumb got caught on the C-hook. The employee's thumb was partially amputated.

Warner Brothers, LLC

An employee was operating a roller and paving a small pathway next to a pavilion. The ground was on a slight pitch, causing him to reach up toward the roll cage to stabilize himself. His right fifth finger was pinched between the roll cage and the rafter of the pavilion. The employee sustained a partial degloving injury with partial traumatic amputation.

Roby's Propane Gas

An employee was delivering home heating fuel when bees came from the ground and stung the employee's face, neck, torso, and hands. The employee proceeded to shut off the oil flow before losing consciousness. They were hospitalized due to an anaphylactic reaction.