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

Pinnacle Erectors LLC

Overexertion in lifting-single episode · Strains

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Pinnacle Erectors LLC, 1060 Addison St., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60613 on — Strains, affecting the lumbar region.

An employee suffered a lower back strain while lifting and placing boxes of material onto a dry wall cart.

Hospitalized Lumbar region Boxes, crates, cartons

Koch Foods of Cincinnati, LLC

An employee was lifting a motor and reaching to place it on a machine when they sustained a back injury. The employee was hospitalized.

MERCY HOSPITAL

On 12/22/2023, an employee was carrying bins filled with pasta to a refrigerator. As he lifted a 20-pound bin, he felt pain in his lower back. The employee sustained a herniated disc.

Jefferson Lansdale Hospital

An employee was lifting a patient when they pulled a back muscle. She suffered back pain and spasms radiating into her leg with weakness and numbness. The employee's L3-L4 disc was herniated and she was hospitalized.

Raytheon Company

An employee was lifting boxes when they suffered a strained back, resulting in hospitalization.

FUSE BUILDS LLC

An employee was lifting a bundle of insulation with a colleague when he felt severe pain in the right side of his lower back/hip region. The employee sustained a severe muscle injury.

Bowman Welding Company, LLC

An employee was walking to exit the work area when steel walls fell on them, resulting in fractures.

FDR Construction LLC

Employees were working to apply sealant to a customer's leaking foundation. The injured employee was digging out dirt and passing it to another worker. The hole that was being dug collapsed and the injured employee became trapped in dirt/mud from the waist down. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

Rollins Construction LLC

An employee was cutting a tack weld with a grinder when the grinder exploded. The employee sustained lacerations to their right index finger.

STANCEL CONCRETE INCORPORATED

An employee was standing on a concrete wall, stripping concrete forms using a pry bar. The employee fell from the wall to the ground 9 feet below, suffering a fractured back and arm.

Tin Man Enterprises

An employee was welding a beam when they fell 12 feet from a scissor lift to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to their face, thumb, and both wrists.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.