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

National Development Corporation

Contact with hot objects or substances · Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at National Development Corporation, 607 Penn Avenue, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15222 on — Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified, affecting the multiple body parts, n.e.c..

An employee was checking on a pipe in the bathroom and the pipe broke, causing hot water to come out and burn his arms and chest.

Hospitalized Multiple body parts, n.e.c. Steam, vapors, liquids, ice, n.e.c.

OQ Chemicals

An employee connected a steam line to a hose to clean equipment when the fitting broke loose. They were struck by steam in the left inner thigh, resulting in burns that required hospitalization.

Husbe Zoaq

An employee was straining hot water from a pot of rice when the water splashed onto them, resulting in burns to their chest, arms, shoulder, and back.

The Cumberland Rest Inc. dba Trinity Terrace

An employee was making tea when she noticed tea grinds were collecting on the side and water was no longer dripping through the funnel. The employee was checking the funnel when boiling water and tea grinds spilled onto the left side of her body. The employee sustained burns to her neck, back, and arm.

Mueller & Wilson Inc

An employee had turned off the ball valve on a waterpipe system and was removing the plug when the coupling system attached to the strainer came apart. Hot water sprayed on his arm and back, resulting in first- and second-degree burns that required surgery.

Oklahoma Steel & Wire Co., LLC

An employee was using a shovel to remove waste vermiculite from molten zinc. The metal had been placed in a bin and partially hardened. The employee broke through the partially hardened metal; still-molten metal flowed to the employee's steel-toed right boot and entered through the cloth boot tongue. The employee suffered a third-degree burn to the right foot and was hospitalized.

Crew Construction

An employee was patching a roof leak when they fell from the roof to the ground and sustained a brain bleed.

Hawthorne Residential Partners LLC

An employee was taking a tour of the property. They were walking up the steps to an apartment when the staircase broke. The employee fell, sustaining a knee injury and a fractured right ankle.

RPM Living LLC

An employee was servicing an air conditioning unit. While he was working to connect the manifold gauges to the port, a rattlesnake bit him on his right hand.

True Property Management, LLC

An employee was repairing a garage door. While the door was being lowered, his finger was caught in one of the gaps in the door. The fingertip was amputated at the middle of the nail.

Main Line Clinical Labs

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Ardent Mills

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

Zimmerman & Herr

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

McAneny Brothers, Inc.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

Metz Culinary Management LLC

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.