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

Tavistock Restaurants

Small-scale (limited) fire · Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Tavistock Restaurants, 761 Boyleston Street, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 02116 on — Third or fourth degree heat (thermal) burns, affecting the hand(s) and wrist(s).

An employee received second and third degree burns to the left hand and wrist while cooking a piece of fish.

Hospitalized Hand(s) and wrist(s) Fats, oils, cooking greases

Nuline Utility Services LLC

An employee was standing on a bag of bentonite clay composite when it ignited and the employee's pants leg caught on fire. The employee then went to remove a gasoline can from a dual-axle trailer and sustained burns to his arms, right hand, and the right side of his abdomen.

Flat Creek Excavating

An employee was burning a brush pile. They poured gasoline on the fire, resulting in burns to his face, arms, and hands.

Panda Express Wyncote

An employee was helping to put out a fire in a wok when hot cooking oil splashed onto the employee. They sustained second-degree burns.

Smith Tank & Steel

Two employees were working on an empty above-ground 2,500-barrel crude oil tank. Employee 1 was welding while employee 2 was watching. Employee 1 saw fire behind the welding smoke and notified employee 2. Before they could get off the tank, they both fell in the tank and sustained burns from the fire.

Evolution Pyrotechnics Manufacturing, Inc.

An employee was pressing pyrotechnic composition into pellets using a pressure tablet press. Upon pouring the composition into the small hopper, the composition ignited and produced a flash fire. The employee sustained bilateral burns to the hands and face.

Spudrock LLC

An employee pulled out a bucket of hot oil from under the fryer. The employee then stood on the table to clean the back wall. He stepped down into the bucket of hot oil, resulting in third-degree burns to his left leg.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc.

An employee was walking through the retail store when they tripped over a display rack and fell. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their left shoulder, left elbow, and left wrist.

Bob Evans

An employee was walking toward the dish area when they tripped over a fan cord and fell on the ground. The employee sustained a hip injury.

Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

An employee was shocked while turning on a circuit breaker for a dishwasher that needed repair. The employee was hospitalized.

Southland Restaurant Services, LLC

An employee was on a roof servicing a refrigeration system. They were using a ladder to get off the roof when they fell, resulting in a shattered left heel that required hospitalization and surgery.

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.