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

JBT Electric, LLC

Slip without fall, n.e.c. · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at JBT Electric, LLC, Little Gypsy Switching Station, MONTZ, LOUISIANA 70068 on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).

An employee was building forms for a concrete pull box and stepped on an X brace. His foot slid down the brace and he severely rolled his ankle resulting in a broken tibia.

Hospitalized Lower leg(s) Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker

Matalco

An employee was between the trough and casting pit, cleaning a filter box at the end of a cast. His right foot slipped off the lid of the cast pan and went into an opening where molten aluminum goes into a trough. The employee contacted molten aluminum and sustained third degree burns to his right leg, ankle, and foot.

Lewis Tree Service, Inc.

An employee was aloft in a tree cutting tree limbs. He was using a rope system and while repositioning, he slipped on moss that was on the tree bark and struck his knee awkwardly on the tree. The employee sustained a fractured kneecap and was hospitalized.

Santoprene Production Pensacola, LLC

An employee lost their balance and slipped. Their hand contacted a turning rotary valve and their middle fingertip was amputated.

FIVE GUYS

An employee was leaning against a fry station when his legs began to slip out from under him. He went to break his fall when his right arm entered the cooking oil. He suffered second- and third-degree burns to the arm.

SSA Atlantic Marine

An employee was unlashing (loosening chains) military vehicles on rail cars prior to offloading. As he stepped off the railcar and onto the ground, he twisted his left ankle in loose gravel alongside the rail track. He required surgery for a dislocated ankle.

Smart Building Technologies - A Fidelity Company

An employee was troubleshooting the control setup for a variable air volume box above a ceiling. The employee's hand came into contact with an exposed, energized 277-volt wire that had loosened from its terminal on the box's assembly. He was shocked and fell off a ladder. His left hand passed across the ceiling grid and was lacerated. He also suffered an electrical burn to the right hand and was hospitalized.

Abbott Electric Inc

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

Mintcrest Corp

An employee was standing on an A-frame ladder approximately 6 feet above the floor while he attached a suspended light fixture to the ceiling. The employee lost balance, and fell to the tiled floor below, sustaining blunt force trauma to his head.

Cupertino Electric, Inc.

An employee was inspecting the overhead area of a single-person lift and repositioning the lift through a double doorway. As they were transitioning through the doorway, they were caught between the doorframe and the vertical mast of the lift. The employee was hospitalized with injuries to the nose, left maxillary sinus, left orbital bone, and left jaw, with fractures at the maxillary sinus area.

Swedberg Electric, LLC

The injured employee was performing routine maintenance on a fan belt/pulley. The injured employee and another person were moving the pulley back and forth manually to find a bearing issue. The injured employee's left ring finger got caught between the belt and the pulley wheel, resulting in a soft tissue amputation.

Kisatchie Midnight Express

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

Jean Simpson Personnel Services, Inc.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

Calvary Industries Inc

An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.