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

FedEx Ground Packaging, Inc.

Overexertion and bodily reaction, unspecified · Myocardial infarction (heart attack)

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at FedEx Ground Packaging, Inc., 552 Caperton Blvd, MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA 25403 on — Myocardial infarction (heart attack), affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.

An employee was sorting packages and suffered shortness of breath. The employee was hospitalized for a possible heart attack.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Person-injured or ill worker, unspecified

Texas Christian University

An employee was participating in volleyball warm-up practice. The employee was serving volleyballs overhead when he suffered a hernia and was hospitalized.

Gordon Food Service Store

On July 27, 2023, an employee was making a delivery when he tried to prevent a box from falling off the dolly. The employee heard a snap in his right knee. He fell to the ground, striking his head on the pavement. On July 28, 2023, while at home, the employee's right leg gave out and caused the employee to fall, tearing the quadriceps in both legs. The employee was hospitalized.

United States Department of the Army (DA)

During an aircraft egress drill, a firefighter suffered chest pain and shortness of breath. He was taken to the hospital for a heart attack.

Federal Express Corporation, Denver Airport

An employee was pulling a loaded cargo container from the back of an aircraft to the front. His left boot got caught on a floor lock. The lock punctured the top of his boot and amputated his little toe.

UPS Customer Center

An employee was completing a delivery at a customer location and began to experience cramping and felt ill. The employee was hospitalized for heat-related illness.

Federal Express Corporation, Denver Airport

An employee was unloading a container when the freight (weighing over 150 lbs.) shifted and caught his right little finger against the container. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated.

Hamilton Post Office

An employee was walking in the walkway when her foot got caught under a pallet and she fell. The employee sustained a hip injury.

Federal Express Corporation

An employee was was unloading packages on airplane cargo while standing on metal grating. He fell onto the grating, resulting in a laceration to his left knee.

Caperton Furniture Works, LLC

An employee tripped over a concrete curb stop in a parking lot. The employee fell to the ground, landing on their left hip and breaking it.

Certainteed Gypsum West Virginia, Inc

An employee was conducting routine maintenance on a mixer. New lid pins had been installed, and the employee was rotating by hand to ensure they had been installed correctly. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the lid and top of a pin. The momentum from the mixer continued, causing a crushing injury to the finger. The employee underwent a medical amputation from the top knuckle to the tip of the finger.

Owens Corning

An employee was climbing down a ladder when it slipped. The employee fell, suffering a broken scapula and broken ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

Applied Integrated Services, LLC

An employee was climbing down a 15-foot multipurpose ladder. The employee fell about 8 feet, landing on the concrete floor and the ladder itself. The employee suffered several injuries, all on the right side: broken ribs, a broken sternum, a broken temporal bone, broken shoulder, multiple fractures to the cheekbone, and a brain bleed.

Fedex Freight Inc.

An employee was rolling up the landing gear on his trailer when the handle began to unwind and struck his face, fracturing his jaw. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.