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

Charter Communications, LLC.

Struck against object or equipment while moving it · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Charter Communications, LLC., 701 Western Oak Drive, HAMMOND, LOUISIANA 70403 on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

An employee was installing cable when a piece of the metal strains went into his finger. His finger became swollen, and he was hospitalized with an infection.

Hospitalized Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Electrical wiring-building

Charter Communications, LLC

An employee was working from an extension ladder in a back yard, disconnecting an aerial telecommunications cable line from a house. The employee fell backward from the ladder to the grass below, suffering fractured vertebrae in their back.

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An employee was removing a service drop at a residential location while on a 28-ft. extension ladder. While ascending or descending the ladder, the employee fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with head and back injuries.

Charter Communications, LLC

An employee was descending a ladder that was positioned against a gutter. The ladder slid on the gutter and the employee fell onto concrete pavers about 10 feet below, landing on and breaking their arm.

Charter Communications, LLC

An employee fell from an extension ladder onto an asphalt pavement about 15 feet below, suffering a skull fracture, internal bleeding in the head, a broken collarbone, broken vertebrae, five to eight broken ribs, and a liver laceration. The employee was hospitalized.

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An employee was preparing to leave a job site and was picking up traffic cones when he slipped on black ice and fell to the ground, resulting in a broken ankle.

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Encore Wire Corporation

Two employees were pushing a lawn mower into a utility truck. The injured employee placed their hand at the left side of the lawn mower deck when they were struck by a blade. The employee's left middle and ring finger were lacerated.

Wheelabrator Hudson Falls, LLC

An employee was inspecting and moving a wooden pallet when an exposed nail lacerated his right forearm.

ASR Staffing Solutions, Inc.

A temporary employee was working in the shipping and receiving area while loading a truck with sheet metal. The employee went to put down the product when the sheet metal lacerated their left middle finger. The employee was hospitalized and the tip of the finger was medically amputated.

CCA MIDWEST, INC.

An employee was carrying a pressure-treated 2x6 board while plating a foundation. The employee put the board on an anchor bolt when a 3-inch sliver of wood got caught in his hand, resulting in a punctured tendon.

Starbucks Soluble Plant

An employee was in the packaging area in a warehouse transporting a 5-foot tilt and roll ladder back to its storage location. The employee was pushing the ladder while standing inside of it when it began to tilt over. As the employee reached to stop the ladder from tilting, his right hand contacted the metal serrated platform. The ladder continued to tilt and as he pulled his hand free, the employee's right middle fingertip was amputated.

Charter Communications

An employee was approximately 5 feet up on a ladder while drilling a hole for cable installation. A wasp attacked him. As he was coming down the ladder, he landed flat on his feet on the ground, and his right leg was twisted. The employee sustained a fractured tibia.

Comcast of Houston LLC

An employee had been installing an outside cable line at a residence. The employee became nauseous from working in the heat. The employee was hospitalized with heat exhaustion and dehydration.

Comcast of Houston LLC

An employee tripped at an elevation change while approaching a home. He fell to the ground and hit his head on a rock, suffering a contusion to the left eyebrow and a possible concussion.

DISH NETWORK

An employee climbed to the top of a ladder at a customer's house. The ladder shifted and the employee fell 28 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized for a lung contusion and a right foot contusion.

Charter Communications

An employee was knocking on a customer's door when two dogs from a neighboring house attacked them, resulting in bite wounds that required hospitalization.

Kisatchie Midnight Express

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

Jean Simpson Personnel Services, Inc.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

Calvary Industries Inc

An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.