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

W.C. Sherrill and Company LLC

Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at W.C. Sherrill and Company LLC, 4504 Sydney Road, PLANT CITY, FLORIDA 33566 on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.

A dozer backed over an employee while he was setting up survey points, breaking his left leg.

Hospitalized Leg(s), unspecified Bulldozers

Bauducco Foods, Inc.

An employee was walking in an aisle when a forklift backed up over her foot, resulting in a skin injury that required surgery to repair.

S. H. Bell Company

An employee was looking into the bucket of a front-end loader to see how much material was in it. A skid steer backed into the employee, who then fell into the edge of the front loader's bucket and suffered internal bleeding in the abdominal area.

SHM Newport Shipyard, LLC

An employee was spotting for a forklift operation. The forklift backed over the employee, who suffered a complete amputation to one lower leg and a partial amputation to the other leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Oil City Iron Works, Inc.

An employee was cleaning his work area and preparing it to begin making air-set molds when a nearby forklift that was backing out from a load swung around and struck the employee. They sustained a lower left leg fracture.

Canyon Falls Farms

An employee was walking around a work area when he was struck by a forklift that was backing up, resulting in several broken bones in his foot.

Stake Center Locating, LLC

An employee was walking on gravel next to railroad tracks to locate underground utility lines when he slipped on loose rocks and rolled down the incline/slope. The employee was hospitalized with a possible neck injury.

Dept. of Commerce - USCB

An employee went into a building in a gated community. The employee was going up steps, then began walking backward down the steps, and fell. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip.

Dewberry Engineers, Inc.

An employee was performing survey work in a field when he came into contact with a venomous animal. The employee sustained a puncture wound and swelling in his left hand and arm.

Sabine Surveyors Ltd

An employee was boarding a ship at anchorage via a pilot ladder to perform a survey on the ship. The employee fell from the ladder and landed back on the deck of the crew boat below. The employee sustained multiple fractures.

Landpoint LLC

Employee 1 was setting up his survey instrument at the edge of a concrete apron surrounding an 11-foot-deep concrete utility vault with a 9x9 steel access cover/lid. Employee 2, then walked behind employee 1, stepping onto the steel vault access cover/lid. The cover gave way, causing employee 2 and the steel vault cover to fall into the vault approximately 11 feet below. Employee 1 fell 8 feet, striking an existing pipeline valve located within the vault. Employee 2 was hospitalized for fractures to the ribs on the left side. Employee 1 did not require hospitalization.

DRIFTWOOD NURSERY & LANDSCAPING, INC

An employee was helping a coworker transport a tall palm tree with a mini skid steer. The employee was severely shocked by a high-voltage electrical wire above the ground.

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

An employee was retrieving a Christmas tree from a shelf using a ladder. He missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained injury to his head and wrist.

Envelope Seal Insulation, Inc

An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida

An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.

Air-flo/Erwood Heating & Air Conditioning

An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.