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

Inland Dredging Co, LLC

Water vehicle incident, unspecified · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Inland Dredging Co, LLC, The Red River, EFFIE, LOUISIANA 71331 on — Fractures, affecting the nose, except internal location of diseases or disorders.

An employee was traversing on deck when the dredging boat was involved in an accident. The employee suffered a broken nose.

Hospitalized Nose, except internal location of diseases or disorders Water vehicle, n.e.c

ACS Docks Inc.

An employee was moving a dock with another employee when his hand was caught between the dock board and a pipe, incurring severe lacerations that required hospitalization and surgery.

Mike Hooks, LLC

An employee was replacing the rubber gasket on a dredge boat's discharge pipe. The dredge boat was moving with the waves, which pushed the dredge pipe into the pontoon of the boat. The employee was holding the end of the dredge pipe when it struck the pontoon of the boat. The employee's right index finger was caught between the end of the pipe and the pontoon, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Portus Stevedoring, LLC

An employee was loading cargo ship containers when he was caught between two cargo ship containers, resulting in a broken arm and ribs. He was hospitalized.

Delphinus Engineering Inc

An employee was walking on the gangway from a ship to a pier when he tripped and fell, bruising and potentially cracking his ribs. He was hospitalized.

AMSEC, LLC

An employee was walking off a ship when he slipped on the accommodation ladder and twisted his left leg. He was hospitalized for surgery.

FEDEX

An employee was performing preventative maintenance on a conveyor belt when his left hand became caught in the belt. The employee sustained severe lacerations to his index finger and thumb, as well as a partial amputation to the middle finger.

United Parcel Service, Inc.

An employee slipped and fell on black ice while walking to the rear of the trailer. The employee suffered a back and head injury and was hospitalized.

Distribution International Metairie Branch

An employee was standing in the receiving dock area when a forklift backed up over their foot. The employee sustained a fractured ankle, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

McAllister Towing of Philadelphia, Inc.

An employee was using a tugboat to winch the barge. While the employee was winching the barge, the winch handle spun backward and struck the employee's right wrist, resulting in a compound fracture of the wrist.

American Bureau of Shipping

Two employees were inspecting separate sides of a void tank in a ship. When one of them stood up from a squat, his glasses slid down his face and his eye and right brow struck a protruding piece of a metal bracket. He suffered a cut to the brow and an eye injury from the bracket piece.

Kisatchie Midnight Express

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

Jean Simpson Personnel Services, Inc.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

Calvary Industries Inc

An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.