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

Hamburg Fireworks Display Inc

Explosion, n.e.c. · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Hamburg Fireworks Display Inc, 2375 State Route 734 NW, JEFFERSONVILLE, OHIO 43128 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the multiple body parts, n.e.c..

An employee was lighting fireworks when a firework exploded causing injuries to the employee's torso and legs.

Hospitalized Multiple body parts, n.e.c. Pyrotechnics, fireworks

Freehold Cartage Inc

An employee was sitting in the cab of the truck while waste oxidizer was being offloaded. The waste reacted with the receiving tank and an explosion occurred in the tank. Fire traveled through the hose to the tanker truck, causing it to explode. The employee jumped from the burning truck and was hospitalized with burns to his face, chest, and arms.

Complete Fire Protection Inc.

An employee was installing piping and valves for fire protection systems in the vicinity of an electrical meter outside of a new warehouse. The meter exploded, causing burns to the employee's face and arms.

MI Metals, Inc.

An employee was pouring molten aluminum into a drain pot. The aluminum touched moisture at the bottom of the drain pot and an explosion occurred. The employee sustained burns to their face, hands, and legs.

Range Environmental Resources

An employee was operating an oxygen-deficient oven that required manual ignition to make charcoal from wood. As the oven was opened, oxygen was introduced to the environment, resulting in an explosion. The employee sustained head trauma as well as fractures to the arms and legs.

RKM Fireworks Company

An employee was setting up the electrical parts for a fireworks display. They were inserting an e-match when it generated friction with something else. A 3-inch firework shell ignited, injuring the employee's hand and head.

Manitou & Pikes Peak Cog Railway

An employee was directing guest traffic in the parking lot when they were attacked by a member of the public, resulting in injuries that required hospitalization.

Camelback Mountain Resort Inc.

An employee was loading snow guns and jacks onto a dump-style truck. The truck was parked on an incline and the door closed on the employee. The employee was hospitalized for contusions and a lacerated liver.

PTT Services LLC

An employee was working in the valet booth with the door locked when three individuals broke down the door. The individuals attacked and robbed him. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion, fractured facial bones, a bruised rib, and a bruised leg bone.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

During aerial practice, an employee fell 25 feet from custom aerial straps and landed on the ice skating rink below. The employee sustained fractures to both wrists and her lower and upper jaw. She also lost one tooth and two front teeth became loose.

Winter4Kids

A ski instructor was teaching skiing/snowboarding when a student on a snowboard crashed into them. The employee was hospitalized with broken bones that required surgery.

United States Postal Service

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

Foundation Steel, LLC

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

GXO Logistics

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

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.

American Electric Power Company

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.