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

UPS Ground Freight Inc.

Exposure to environmental heat · Effects of heat and light, n.e.c.

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at UPS Ground Freight Inc., 1300 Old Ellis Rd, ROSWELL, GEORGIA 30076 on — Effects of heat and light, n.e.c., affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.

The employee was making delivery rounds and started to feel nauseous and began vomiting. The employee was admitted to the hospital for dehydration.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Heat-environmental

UPS Ground Freight, Inc.

An employee was loading packages into a trailer. They were pushing in the roller assembly when it became unlatched from the dock. As the roller set moved away from the dock, employee's left little finger got pinched between the hand bar of the rollers and a stationary bar. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated.

UPS Ground Freight, Inc.

An employee was walking to his vehicle during his lunch break when he slipped in the snow and fell to the ground, tearing a ligament in his left knee.

UPS Ground Freight Inc.

The injured employee was standing beside a forklift going through paperwork. The forklift operator moved the forklift and it struck the injured employee resulting in a broken left fibula.

UPS GROUND FREIGHT, INC.

A dock plate got stuck while being deployed into a trailer. While an employee was getting it loose, it caught on his glove and slammed down onto his right index finger, causing an amputation.

UPS Ground Freight Inc.

An employee slipped on a metal bar inside a truck trailer, suffering a knee injury.

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Great Northwest Concrete

An employee was performing finishing work on a residential driveway when they began to experience body cramps and were hospitalized for heat stress and dehydration.

Lady Moon Farms, Inc.

An employee was staking tomato plants on a farm. The employee began to feel sick and collapsed, suffering from dehydration and heat shock.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

An agent was participating in SWAT team selection and was performing various physical fitness skills including running and exercise intervals. The agent experienced dehydration and a muscular injury that required hospitalization.

Hi-Tech Roofing & Sheetmetal, Inc.

An employee was traveling back from work when they became ill and experienced dizziness due to heat exhaustion.

2911 Logistics

On September 26, 2023, an employee was delivering packages when he began to feel ill with a pain in his side. He was hospitalized for heat exhaustion and dehydration.

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.

Southeastern Freight Lines

An employee was hooking up a set of 28-foot trailers, attaching a converter dolly to the lead trailer's pintle hook. He backed up the lead trailer and parked it a foot from the converter dolly, then lifted the converter dolly and rolled it to the lead trailer to set it onto the hook. The converter dolly kicked up, and the employee's left hand was caught between it and the trailer. He suffered a severe laceration to the palm between the ring finger and middle finger.

Texas TransEastern

An employee was cleaning the windshield of his truck. When he stepped down from the truck, he lost balance and reached to catch himself using the side mirror. The impact fractured his left wrist. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

HOGAN TRANSPORT

An employee was standing on the DOT bumper on the back of a standard 53-foot trailer. The employee lost his footing and his grip on the handle bar, and fell approximately 42 inches to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip/femur.

ARMELLINI EXPRESS LINES

A driver was making a delivery. As he was climbing onto his trailer to get boxes, the strap he was using to pull himself up broke. He fell from the back of the trailer to the ground, landing on his right leg and breaking his femur.

GS II Building Products, Inc.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

US Battery Manufacturing Company, Inc

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

Alfa Insurance

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

Bull Moose Tube

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.