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

SIMPLOY INC.

Overexertion in lifting-single episode · Hernias due to traumatic incidents

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at SIMPLOY INC., 13023 Tesson Ferry Rd., SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI 63128 on — Hernias due to traumatic incidents, affecting the abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders.

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An employee sustained a hernia while lifting a vanity for installation.

Hospitalized Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders Sinks

Koch Foods of Cincinnati, LLC

An employee was lifting a motor and reaching to place it on a machine when they sustained a back injury. The employee was hospitalized.

MERCY HOSPITAL

On 12/22/2023, an employee was carrying bins filled with pasta to a refrigerator. As he lifted a 20-pound bin, he felt pain in his lower back. The employee sustained a herniated disc.

Jefferson Lansdale Hospital

An employee was lifting a patient when they pulled a back muscle. She suffered back pain and spasms radiating into her leg with weakness and numbness. The employee's L3-L4 disc was herniated and she was hospitalized.

Raytheon Company

An employee was lifting boxes when they suffered a strained back, resulting in hospitalization.

FUSE BUILDS LLC

An employee was lifting a bundle of insulation with a colleague when he felt severe pain in the right side of his lower back/hip region. The employee sustained a severe muscle injury.

Spherion Staffing Gainesville, FL

A temporary employee fell from an A-frame ladder to the floor about 5 to 6 feet below. He suffered fractures to his left hip and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Epic HR LLC

A temporary employee was operating an electric pallet jack at a loading dock. While maneuvering the pallet jack into a trailer, the equipment loaded onto the pallet jack began shifting to the left. The employee's left foot was caught between a yellow guardrail and the side platform of the pallet jack, and his left ankle was crushed and fractured.

Spur Staffing

A temporary employee was cleaning a room and compressing the contents of a garbage bin using her right foot. As she pulled her leg out of the bin, she lost balance and fell to the ground, landing on her left hip. The employee sustained a fracture to her left hip and was hospitalized.

Epic Personnel Partners, LLC

An employee was driving an electric pallet jack when it struck a rack. The employee was hospitalized with a crushed and lacerated right ankle.

PRT Staffing

A temporary employee was filling a sweeper with gas at a construction site. He was shocked by the jumper cables, which caused him to move his right hand into the sweeper's rotating fan blades. His middle fingertip was amputated.

WADDELL CONCRETE INC.

An employee was readjusting a safety hook to remove hardware from gang forms when his feet slipped. He fell to the ground, resulting in a broken left arm and wrist.

Dollar Tree

An employee was on a step ladder in a store aisle, making room on shelving for merchandise. She fell from the step ladder to the floor, suffering two fractures in her left leg. She was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Corrigan Brothers Inc

An employee was closing the side cargo door to a company van. The tip of his finger got caught between the door and the door jamb, resulting in a partial amputation.

Plumb Supply Company

An employee lost his footing while climbing an inclined ladder. He stumbled down one step and was able to stabilize himself by holding the railing and twisting his body, but he suffered an internal abdominal injury and was hospitalized.

JRI INDUSTRIES

An employee was manipulating dies on a brake press. The press caught and crushed the employee's right forearm, resulting in hospitalization.