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

Domtar Addison Converting, Inc.

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Bruises, contusions

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Domtar Addison Converting, Inc., 350 S. Rohlwing Road, ADDISON, ILLINOIS 60101 on — Bruises, contusions, affecting the back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified.

An employee was using crossover stairs to bring tools to another employee when his foot slipped off the second to last tread and he fell. His back hit the stairs, suffering blunt trauma and contusions. He was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified Stairs, steps-indoors

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.

United Envelope, LLC

An employee was leaning on a vacuum hose with their right hand. The hose collapsed and caused the employee's hand to go into the vacuum fan. Their right index fingertip was amputated.

Federal Envelope Company

An employee was retrieving envelopes that were stuck in a machine when a part of the machine contacted her right forearm, resulting in a laceration.

Cenveo, Inc.

A temporary employee was removing an envelope that was sitting on folding cylinders in the top-fold section of an envelope-folding machine. Their left index and middle fingers became caught in the rolls, resulting in partial amputations of the fingertips.

W.B. Mason

An employee was making a delivery when they fell from the back of the delivery truck to the ground, resulting in a broken left hip.

Dixon Ticonderoga Company

An employee was cleaning a flexographic press when their left hand was caught in the machine and three fingers were crushed. Their index finger sustained an amputation.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.