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

ERM, Inc.

Nonvenomous insect bites · Other poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effects, n.e.c.

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at ERM, Inc., 150 Plant Road, NITRO, WEST VIRGINIA 25143 on — Other poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effects, n.e.c., affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.

On June 14, 2016, an employee was bitten by a tick while performing remediation work in the field. The employee became ill and required hospitalization.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Ticks and mites

BriteView Landscape Services

While conducting landscaping, an employee was bitten by an insect. The employee sustained an infection.

Inline Plastics Corp.

An employee was bitten on the leg by a spider while cleaning cobwebs and developed an infection.

Pratt & Whitney

An employee was bitten by an insect. The bite became infected, and the employee was hospitalized.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY

On May 24, 2019, an employee was bitten by a spider. The employee was hospitalized the next day when the bite became infected.

Westin Fort Lauderdale

An insect bit an employee who was working at a caf . The bite became infected, and the employee was hospitalized.

CSD Environmental Services

An employee was operating a hammer drill when his glove got tangled in the drill and his little finger was amputated.

Triumvirate Environmental, Inc.

The employee was working in the back of a micro truck and maneuvering around the materials in the back of the truck. The employee's foot caught on the edge of the truck, causing him to lose balance and fall from the back of the truck to the ground approximately 3.5 to 4 feet below. The employee landed on his feet on the loading dock but rolled his ankle. The employee was hospitalized with a compound fracture of the ankle.

Matrix Environmental Technologies Inc.

An employee was assisting the operator of a soil sampling rig to collect soil samples. He went to remove soil sampling tooling and the energized equipment cycled. His right index fingertip was amputated including the fingernail.

Ironclad Environmental Solutions, Inc.

A truck driver was loading a second roll-off container onto a two-box trailer. He was operating the hydraulic control levers with his left hand, and was holding the D-ring in place on the exterior of the trailer while letting slack out of the winch cable. The employee's right little finger became pinched between the winch cable and the structure of the trailer. The employee required surgical amputation of the distal phalanx.

Montrose Environmental Group, Inc.

An employee was sampling a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit by opening a valve and placing a proving tube inside to collect the sample. The sample taken is a hot gas mixture. When the sample was collected, the flange came undone and fell due to the pressure. The employee sustained an amputation to their right middle fingertip.

Caperton Furniture Works, LLC

An employee tripped over a concrete curb stop in a parking lot. The employee fell to the ground, landing on their left hip and breaking it.

Certainteed Gypsum West Virginia, Inc

An employee was conducting routine maintenance on a mixer. New lid pins had been installed, and the employee was rotating by hand to ensure they had been installed correctly. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the lid and top of a pin. The momentum from the mixer continued, causing a crushing injury to the finger. The employee underwent a medical amputation from the top knuckle to the tip of the finger.

Owens Corning

An employee was climbing down a ladder when it slipped. The employee fell, suffering a broken scapula and broken ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

Applied Integrated Services, LLC

An employee was climbing down a 15-foot multipurpose ladder. The employee fell about 8 feet, landing on the concrete floor and the ladder itself. The employee suffered several injuries, all on the right side: broken ribs, a broken sternum, a broken temporal bone, broken shoulder, multiple fractures to the cheekbone, and a brain bleed.

Fedex Freight Inc.

An employee was rolling up the landing gear on his trailer when the handle began to unwind and struck his face, fracturing his jaw. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.