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

Verizon

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Cuts, lacerations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Verizon, 20 Markley St, PORT READING, NEW JERSEY 07064 on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the forehead.

An employee was hospitalized with a laceration to the left brow area after falling approximately 3 feet to the ground from a pole that he was climbing.

Hospitalized Forehead Utility and telephone poles

Verizon

An employee was working from a raised scissor lift to fix an overhead garage door. The lift tipped over and the employee fell to the concrete floor about 18-20 feet below. The employee suffered a head injury, broken ribs, and a broken pelvis.

Verizon

An employee was removing aerial service wires from an extension ladder when he fell 14 feet from the ladder. The employee sustained fractures to his pelvis, right hip, and ribs.

Verizon

An employee was working from an extension ladder that was resting on a telecommunications line running between two wooden poles. One of the poles broke, causing the line to drop. The employee fell with the ladder, landing on the asphalt pavement and was hospitalized for a head injury.

Verizon

An employee was moving/relocating a desk and an ergonomic chair when he slipped and fell to ground, hitting and injuring one of his knees.

Verizon

An employee was using a 3-foot ladder to replace the molding above the door outside an apartment unit. While descending the ladder, the employee fell and missed the last step as the right leg of the ladder gave way. The employee then fell to the floor and landed on his left hip, resulting in a hip fracture.

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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.

Pacific Bell Telephone Company

While working to install telecommunications service, an employee was descending an extension ladder which was attached to a strand between two utility poles. The ladder shifted to the left. The employee lost his balance, and fell approximately 10-15 feet onto compacted soil. The employee sustained fractures to his right fibula and tibia requiring surgery, and a dislocated left ankle.

Bellsouth Telecommunications, LLC

An employee was standing near a manhole when a chain that was attached to a cable placing truck to pull copper out snapped and struck his right leg. The employee sustained a laceration and broken leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Dhaliwal Labs South, LLC

An employee was cleaning excess product from the line when their hand became caught in the back of a rotary filling machine. The employee's wrist was broken.

AT&T Services, Inc.

An employee was going up a ladder between two utility poles in a backyard. He then went to readjust the ladder, but fell before getting to the bottom of the ladder. The employee sustained a broken left hip.

AT & T

An employee was stepping out of a car when they slipped and fell on ice, resulting in a femur fracture.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.