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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

United Continental Holdings, Inc.

Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c. · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at United Continental Holdings, Inc., Newark Liberty Airport, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07114 on — Fractures, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.

An employee was walking backward toward a jet bridge as it moved in his direction. The jet bridge and the tire then rolled on top of his left foot, fracturing it.

Hospitalized Foot (feet), unspecified Floors, walkways, ground surfaces, n.e.c.

United Continental Holdings, Inc.

An employee was inspecting baggage handling belts. The employee's hand was caught between the rollers on a belt, causing the degloving of two fingers. The employee was hospitalized.

United Continental Holdings, Inc.

An employee was operating a ramp service SUV when he crashed into a catering operations truck behind an airport gate. He fractured his ribs and neck, requiring hospitalization.

United Continental Holdings Inc.

An employee was bitten by a spider while handling baggage. The employee became ill and the area that was bitten became swollen. The employee was hospitalized.

United Continental Holdings, Inc.

An employee was helping to load a food truck on the dock when the driver drove off while the employee was still in the truck, causing the employee to fall and break a leg bone. The employee was hospitalized overnight and required surgery.

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TRC Engineers, Inc.

An employee was inspecting a bridge repair project. A gas-powered, walk-behind pavement saw, being used 12 feet away from the employee lunged forward, cutting his left foot. The employee's fourth toe was amputated and he was hospitalized.

HDR, Inc.

An employee had been reviewing an insulated glass unit. The employee was placing the glass unit back in its box when it slipped out of the box and a chipped corner lacerated the employee's left hand.

Kings Stone Plus LLC

An employee was on a truck while using a clamp to secure a quartz slab to an A-frame on the truck. A gust of wind pushed the slab onto the employee, resulting in a dislocated right shoulder and wrist.

TRM Innovative Hearth Products

An employee was shearing off two inches of metal when the metal kicked up and struck his hand. The employee's left ring and middle fingertips were amputated.

Day & Zimmermann

An employee was working on a 35,000-pound I.D. fan. As the employee rotated the blades with his foot, the blades continued to spin, lacerating his right foot and amputating a toe.

Delta Air Lines Inc.

An employee was clearing a jam on the airport baggage system conveyor when his left leg became caught between slats of the conveyor. The employee sustained fractures and tissue damage to his lower leg, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Delta Air Lines Inc

An employee was helping offload an aircraft. She was standing in the opening between a parked cart and an unoccupied aircraft tug when another vehicle struck a stationary bag cart, which then struck her. The employee suffered a skull fracture near the right eye, a right kneecap fracture, a nose fracture, and sinus damage, as well as soft tissue damage to the left calf and hip. She was hospitalized and required surgery.

Swissport USA, Inc.

An employee was working to refuel a truck. While handling the fuel hose(s), she experienced pain in her stomach. After completing the task, the employee drove back to the pad and the movement aggravated her abdominal pain. The employee was hospitalized with an abdominal sprain/strain.

Envoy Air, Inc

An employee was on a jetway overseeing the operation. As the jet bridge was retracted, the employee's left arm was caught between the jet bridge side walls. The employee sustained a degloving to their left forearm.

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

An employee was descending a fixed ladder on the side of a container loader. The employee fell from the ladder, landing on the ground about 6-8 feet below and sustained fractures to their back and pelvis.

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.