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

HELP AT HOME, INC.

Overexertion in catching-single episode · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at HELP AT HOME, INC., 7105 Virginia Road, CRYSTAL LAKE, ILLINOIS 60014 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified.

An employee suffered a ruptured/fractured vertebrae while assisting a patient.

Hospitalized Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified Patient

HELP AT HOME, INC.

An employee was stabbed multiple times with a knife while working at a client's home.

HELP AT HOME, INC.

At about 2:00 p.m. on March 20, 2019, an employee was walking down the steps of a client's home when she fell down six steps. She suffered bruised ribs, a nasal fracture, a possible bruised frontal lobe of the brain, and injuries to the left knee and ankle. She was hospitalized.

HELP AT HOME, INC.

An employee was cleaning a client's residence and was struck by a folding chair that fell from a height or possibly tripped over a chair and fell. The employee suffered three fractured ribs and a lacerated spleen.

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Advocate Health Care

An employee was walking with a patient when the patient tripped on a wheelchair scale. The employee tried to catch the patient and sustained a neck injury. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Spinnaker Holding Inc.

An employee was using a doffing cart to move a roll of paper over to a conveyor. The roll hit the edge of the roll plate, causing it to tip over; the employee suffered a back sprain while stopping it from falling.

Central Processing Corp

An employee was climbing a ladder with a 46-pound aluminum box frame. The frame hit a wall and began to fall; as the employee tried to stop it, he suffered a shoulder dislocation that required surgery.

DaVita Johnson County Dialysis

A patient got up from a wheelchair to be weighed on a scale as an employee stood nearby to record the weight. The patient's knee buckled and the patient began to fall, so the employee performed an assisted fall and helped the patient to the ground. In the process, the employee suffered a back strain and pain, requiring hospitalization.

TRADITIONAL HOME HEALTH OF PALM BEACH, INC.

An employee was assisting a patient in a shower when the patient slipped and fell. The employee suffered back injuries while attempting to catch the patient from falling, requiring hospitalization.

Bienvivir Senior Health Services

An employee was walking around chairs and tables when she tripped on a chair leg, and fell resulting in a left knee fracture.

Easter Seals Central and Southeast Ohio

On September 10, 2025, an employee was walking up a wooden wheelchair ramp to a back door at a customer's home when she slipped/tripped on a rug and fell into a wall, hitting her shoulder and elbow. She then fell to the ground, resulting in a fractured hip that required hospitalization.

Res Care - Parkersburg Agency

An employee was getting up off a couch as a client was aggressive. The client kicked the employee, causing him to fall over the arm of the couch and land on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip.

Arc of St Charles

An employee was sitting in a chair when their legs were struck by a golf cart. The employee's left leg was broken and required surgery.

Maria Cerino, LLC

An employee was raking leaves at a client's house when they fell down an embankment. The employee landed on the ground and sustained a head/brain injury, a fractured shoulder, and a fractured pelvis.

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.