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

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Overexertion in lifting-single episode · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Thermo Fisher Scientific, 7554 Schantz Road, ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 18106 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the lumbar region.

An employee was moving a box from a pallet to a shelf when she experienced severe pain in her lower back, requiring hospitalization.

Hospitalized Lumbar region Boxes, crates, cartons

Thermo Fisher Scientific

An employee was mopping a floor when they stepped forward onto a section they just mopped and slipped, falling to the ground. The employee suffered a shattered kneecap.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

The employee was crouched down to fix tape on the floor when they lost their balance and fell backward. The employee suffered a hyperextended left ankle that required surgery.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

An employee tripped on the edge of a pallet in the production room and fell to the floor resulting in in-patient hospitalization for facial fractures.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

On March 23, 2022, an employee was operating a brake press. The employee's finger was caught between the rear gauge and the bottom die, and the fingertip was amputated.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

At about 9:30 a.m. on March 31, 2021, an employee was backing an order picker through a narrow aisle, carrying empty pallets. The top few pallets struck a box, then struck the uprights of the high rack, and then struck the employee's left leg and pinned it against the order picker. The employee suffered severe contusions.

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Koch Foods of Cincinnati, LLC

An employee was lifting a motor and reaching to place it on a machine when they sustained a back injury. The employee was hospitalized.

MERCY HOSPITAL

On 12/22/2023, an employee was carrying bins filled with pasta to a refrigerator. As he lifted a 20-pound bin, he felt pain in his lower back. The employee sustained a herniated disc.

Jefferson Lansdale Hospital

An employee was lifting a patient when they pulled a back muscle. She suffered back pain and spasms radiating into her leg with weakness and numbness. The employee's L3-L4 disc was herniated and she was hospitalized.

Raytheon Company

An employee was lifting boxes when they suffered a strained back, resulting in hospitalization.

FUSE BUILDS LLC

An employee was lifting a bundle of insulation with a colleague when he felt severe pain in the right side of his lower back/hip region. The employee sustained a severe muscle injury.

Consolidated Wellsite Services

Employees were conducting a snubbing operation. While making up the tubing swivel onto the joint in the mouse hole, employee 2 proceeded to pull power tongs off the pipe. At the same time, the injured employee went to re-adjust the tong heads. The make/brake handle was pulled and the injured employee's right hand got caught in the tongs. The injured employee's index, middle, and ring fingers were amputated and he required surgery.

Geo-Solutions, Inc.

On 9/26/2025, an employee was using a pair of scissors to cut a zip-tie that was securing a box of files. The scissors slipped and lacerated the employee s left wrist. The employee was hospitalized.

CAMIN CARGO CONTROL INC

An employee had been taking fuel samples from the top of a barge. The employee was hospitalized with heat exhaustion.

Celanese Corporation

An employee was troubleshooting and rodding out a piece of process piping equipment when their left index finger was caught between the tool handle and threaded flange. The employee's fingertip was partially amputated.

Cintas Facility Services

An employee was walking in steel-toed boots when his left foot struck a pallet jack, resulting in partial amputation of a toe.

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.