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

Gap Inc.

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Gap Inc., Banana Republic, VERNON HILLS, ILLINOIS 60061 on — Fractures, affecting the knee(s).

An employee was using a two-step step stool to reach a high shelf when she fell and struck her knee on the stool. She broke her left knee and was hospitalized for surgery.

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Gap Inc.

An employee was picking items for an online order when they tripped on the end of a rack and fell. The employee sustained a head laceration and was hospitalized.

Gap, Inc.

An employee was walking to a time clock when they tripped over the forks of a forklift and fell on the ground sustaining a broken right leg and ankle.

GAP, INC.

An employee was driving a forklift and struck a pole, resulting in a broken left ankle.

GAP, INC.

An employee tripped on a 4-by-4 pallet support board and fell to the concrete floor, suffering a possible leg fracture.

Gap Inc.

An employee was on a compactor platform throwing cardboard into the trash compactor when she fell 1 foot off the ledge of the platform to the ground, breaking her tibia.

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Electrical Contractors Inc.

An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.

M1 Support Services

An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.

FEDEX Ground Package System, Inc.

An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.

SRM Concrete

An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.

U.S. Postal Service - Los Angeles P&DC

An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.

PRIMARK US CORP.

An employee was walking into the stock room when they slipped on a wet floor and fell, resulting in a sprained left wrist and a concussion. The employee was hospitalized.

JCPenney Distribution Center

An employee was climbing down a ladder. She fell from about 3 feet up, grabbed storage racking but could not break her fall, and landed on the floor. She suffered an injury to the left knee, as well as cuts on the right middle and ring fingers. She was hospitalized.

Dillard's

An employee was exiting the building and walking down the stairs with co-workers when she fell down the stairs and landed on her left hip, fracturing it.

Kohl's Green Bay West

An employee was utilizing an inclined conveyor belt in the stock room to transport a bathroom rug to the second floor. She was at the bottom of the conveyor belt when the rug fell into the conveyor roller mechanism, jamming it. She was working to clear the jam when her right arm became caught in the 3.5-inch gap between the powered conveyor belt and the underside roller. The employee was hospitalized with six fractures, including her forearm, index finger, ring finger, wrist, and thumb, as well as a severed artery. The machine was not guarded or locked out/tagged out at the time.

The TJX Companies, Inc

An employee was repositioning merchandise after the floor was stripped and waxed when they slipped on uncured wax and fell to the floor. The employee sustained a fractured right femur.

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.