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

Taco Bell

Struck against object or equipment, n.e.c. · Cuts, lacerations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Taco Bell, 3314 Steelyard Drive, CLEVELAND, OHIO 44109 on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the wrist(s).

On 3/8/2016, an employee was folding a box when she sustained a paper cut on her left wrist. The cut later became infected and required hospitalization.

Hospitalized Wrist(s) Boxes, crates, cartons

Taco Bell

An employee was inspecting an air-conditioning unit when they sustained a laceration to their left finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Taco Bell

At the end of a shift on March 21, 2021, an employee developed back pain while lifting a container of lettuce. The employee was hospitalized, having suffered strains.

Taco Bell

In the course of an altercation, one employee shot another.

Taco Bell

An employee was carrying a bucket of water. The bucket fell to the floor; then the employee fell, suffering second- and third-degree burns to the arm and stomach from the water.

Taco Bell

An employee slipped and fell while walking in the kitchen. The employee sustained a fractured tailbone.

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Best Block

An employee was using a forklift to deliver rebar to a jobsite. The rebar could not fit through the delivery gate and was raised in order to clear the gate. The rebar then caused the forklift to tip forward, causing the employee to strike his head on the roll cage. The employee sustained a neck fracture.

Container Graphics Corporation

An employee was picking up a piece of steel-cutting rule when he felt the rule snag his glove. When he moved his hand in the opposite direction to free it, the rule lacerated his finger deeper, resulting in a partial traumatic amputation.

HERTZ Corporation

An employee was exiting their car at a fuel pump island when their knee struck the car door, resulting in a blood clot.

Latham Pool Products, Inc.

An employee was putting on a work boot when a fiberglass splinter punctured the bottom of the employee's left foot. The employee was hospitalized for an infection.

Port Marina

An employee was cleaning the kitchen for closing and sustained burns to their face and body after a fryer tipped over and hot oil splashed onto the employee.

Olive Garden Holdings, LLC

An employee was unloading the dishwasher and dropped a glass, resulting in a left hand laceration that required hospitalization.

Pappas Restaurants, Inc.

An employee was removing a sauce pan from a stove burner when a water and sugar mixture spilled onto their hand, resulting in burns.

Cameron Mitchell Restaurants, LLC

An employee was straining demi-glace into a pot. The strainer the employee was using became heavy and hit the pot, causing the demi-glace to spill onto the employee's right hand. The employee suffered second-degree burns to the hand.

BRINKER FLORIDA, INC.

An employee's left knee entered a fryer. He suffered burns from the hot oil.

United States Postal Service

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

Foundation Steel, LLC

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

GXO Logistics

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

Abbott Electric Inc

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

American Electric Power Company

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.