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

COLONIAL WIRE & CABLE CO., INC.

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at COLONIAL WIRE & CABLE CO., INC., 40 ENGINEERS ROAD, HAUPPAUGE, NEW YORK 11788 on — Traumatic injuries and disorders, unspecified, affecting the nonclassifiable.

An employee was on a materials rack feeding wire into a wire making machine, lost his balance and fell backwards five feet landing on his back.

Hospitalized Nonclassifiable Racks-garment and other

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.

Supercon, Incorporated

An employee was assisting with inserting wire into a nitric acid bath. The wire was pulled out and made a splash causing the employee to inhale the nitric acid vapors. The employee was hospitalized with injury to their lungs.

Supercon, Incorporated

On August 30, 2021, an employee was operating a stationary electric bandsaw when the saw blade amputated the employee's fingertip.

OKONITE COMPANY INC

An employee suffered a finger amputation while working with a lead stripping machine.

Kalas Mfg. Inc.

An employee was working on a die casting machine, running an angle mold. The employee's hand was caught in a pinch point, causing a finger amputation injury.

KALAS MANUFACTURING, INCORPORATED

An employee was rolling a piece of wire and pinched their left middle finger against the other roller resulting in amputation of the finger.

Garden Angels New York LLC

An employee was cleaning leaves with a backpack blower when he fell from a ladder, resulting in injuries to his head, neck, and back.

Cashless Tolling Constructors

An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.

NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

VILLAGER CONSTRUCTION, INC.

An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.