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

A & F Drywall, LLC

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at A & F Drywall, LLC, 3 Venesa Lane, MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA 26505 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the knee(s).

An employee was hanging drywall on a ceiling while wearing stilts when the employee fell to the floor, injuring the right knee.

Hospitalized Knee(s) Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.

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.

Envelope Seal Insulation, Inc

An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

Builders Installed Products of New York, LLC

An employee was closing a rear trailer door in the parking lot when they were struck by a forklift. The employee's lower left leg was crushed between the pallet on the forklift and the trailer. The employee sustained muscle damage to their lower leg.

FC Drywall

An employee was cutting wood with a circular saw. The machine lagged and cut the employee's finger. The employee required surgical amputation of the finger at the hospital.

Garland Insulation

An employee was climbing a 12-foot ladder when he lost his balance and fell from the eighth rung to the ground. He sustained multiple broken ribs, which caused lung punctures.

Rochester Davis Fetch Corporation

An employee was installing spray-on fire proofing from a scissor lift. The scissor lift tipped over and the employee fell, resulting in multiple fractures to their leg, shoulder, and skull.

Caperton Furniture Works, LLC

An employee tripped over a concrete curb stop in a parking lot. The employee fell to the ground, landing on their left hip and breaking it.

Certainteed Gypsum West Virginia, Inc

An employee was conducting routine maintenance on a mixer. New lid pins had been installed, and the employee was rotating by hand to ensure they had been installed correctly. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the lid and top of a pin. The momentum from the mixer continued, causing a crushing injury to the finger. The employee underwent a medical amputation from the top knuckle to the tip of the finger.

Owens Corning

An employee was climbing down a ladder when it slipped. The employee fell, suffering a broken scapula and broken ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

Applied Integrated Services, LLC

An employee was climbing down a 15-foot multipurpose ladder. The employee fell about 8 feet, landing on the concrete floor and the ladder itself. The employee suffered several injuries, all on the right side: broken ribs, a broken sternum, a broken temporal bone, broken shoulder, multiple fractures to the cheekbone, and a brain bleed.

Fedex Freight Inc.

An employee was rolling up the landing gear on his trailer when the handle began to unwind and struck his face, fracturing his jaw. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.