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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., 34 Sylvan Way, PARSIPPANY, NEW JERSEY 07054 on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).

An employee was stepping off a 2-step stool when his leg gave out and he fell to the floor, fracturing his hip.

Hospitalized Hip(s) Step ladders

Wegmans Food Markets Inc.

An employee was cutting floral stem bunches. She was grabbing a piece of plastic out of the stem cutting machine when the machine cut and amputated her left index and middle fingers.

WEGMANS FOOD MARKETS, INC.

An employee was leaning on a wall railing. When a stack of baskets was rolled up to the employee and contacted them, the employee lost their balance and fell to the floor on their left side. The employee sustained fractures to her shoulder and femur.

Wegmans Food Markets Inc.

An employee was walking in front of the main checkouts when their left foot caught on the floor. The employee twisted and fell on their right hip. The employee's hip was fractured and required surgery.

Wegmans Food Markets Inc.

An employee was picking up a case of bananas when his shoe got caught on something and he fell to the concrete floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip.

WEGMANS FOOD MARKETS, INC.

An employee was entering the building and when she stepped from the doormat to the bare floor she slipped and fell to the ground. She landed on her right ankle/lower leg, resulting in a fractured tibia and fibula.

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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.

Fortune Foods Texas Inc.

Employee 1 was investigating a gas odor. While employee 1 was checking the equipment, a gas explosion occurred, resulting in a fire that burned the employee's face. Employee 2 entered the area and a second explosion occurred, causing burns to their face and arms. Employee 2 was hospitalized.

Giant Food Stores

An employee tripped while walking from one store register station to another. Her forehead struck a register, and she suffered fractures to two vertebrae in her neck. She was hospitalized.

Meijer Stores Limited Partnership

An employee was pulling a display shipper using the provided strap. The strap broke and the employee fell to the floor, suffering a broken wrist.

Shady Maple Farm Market, Inc.

An employee fell down a flight of stairs to the floor and suffered contusions and lacerations to the forehead and lips. She was hospitalized.

Harris Teeter #352

An employee was stocking and ordering the meat case on the sales floor when he slipped and fell due to water on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.