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

Worldwide Flight Services

Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving · Intracranial injuries, unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Worldwide Flight Services, Building #151 (JFK Airport), JAMAICA, NEW YORK 11430 on — Intracranial injuries, unspecified, affecting the brain.

An employee got into a physical confrontation with a coworker when the coworker struck the employee in the head with an iron rod.

Hospitalized Brain Co-worker

Worldwide Flight Services

An employee was offloading an airplane flight. After driving a transporter car to place a pallet on a static rack, he got off the transporter to apply the lock and secure the pallet on the rack. The pallet began to roll off the rack and pinned the employee against the transporter. He suffered a broken right leg.

Worldwide Flight Services

At about 3:45 a.m. on June 13, 2025, an employee was hooking up dollies before an aircraft landed. His right middle finger was pinched between a dolly tongue and a hitch connector, and he suffered a partial amputation to the fingertip. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Worldwide Flight Services

An employee was removing unit load device (ULD) containers from a slave dolly. A forklift reversed and struck the employee, resulting in a fractured ankle.

Worldwide Flight Services

An employee was driving a truck. He turned the truck onto an uneven surface when a strong wind caused the vehicle to overturn. The employee suffered four broken ribs and an abdominal injury.

Worldwide Flight Services

An employee was transferring cargo/freight from a K-loader onto a dolly. The pallet rolled to the opposite end of the dolly where the employee was standing and fell on him. He was crushed between a catering truck and the pallet and sustained chest injuries.

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Family Dollar

A store employee was pushed by a shoplifter into the frame of the entrance door to the store. The employee's head struck the doorframe resulting in head injuries and contusions on her hand and arm. The employee was hospitalized.

Cleveland Clinic Akron General

A patient kicked a police officer in the leg, rupturing their patellar tendon. The police officer required hospitalization and surgery.

Dollar General Store 9012

A cashier was hit in the face by a customer. The employee sustained injuries to his head and face.

Circles of Care, Inc.

An employee was making patient rounds at the hospital and stopped to talk with the charge nurse in front of the nurse's station. A patient reached over the nurse's station, grabbed a metal three-hole paper punch from over the desk, and proceeded to attack the employee with it. The employee sustained lacerations to the head and face, a fractured forearm, and a fractured little finger.

UHS Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare

A teacher's assistant was attending to a student in the quiet room when they were pushed by another student. The employee fell to the floor and sustained a left hip fracture.

POI Aviation Incorporated

An employee was operating a tug that had been re-tagged due to faulty brakes. As the employee approached the designated parking area, he slowed the tug using the clutch and then exited the tug. He went to stop the tug from colliding with a concrete wall when his right ankle became caught between the tug and a parking stall barrier. He sustained a fractured ankle and was hospitalized.

American Airlines

An employee had just arrived to work and was driving a tug to the gatehouse. The tug ran over chocks while exiting the inbound area, causing the employee to fall to the ground. He was hospitalized with four fractured ribs.

Quantum Aviation Services LLC

An employee was unloading shipping containers from an aircraft when they suffered heat exhaustion and were hospitalized.

Ground Services International

An employee was manually pulling a container from the aft cargo hold of a wide-body jetliner. Their right little finger got pinned between the container and the edge of the cargo door. The employee's finger was partially amputated.

Worldwide Flight Services

An employee was offloading an airplane flight. After driving a transporter car to place a pallet on a static rack, he got off the transporter to apply the lock and secure the pallet on the rack. The pallet began to roll off the rack and pinned the employee against the transporter. He suffered a broken right leg.

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.