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

Goodwill Recycling Center

Trip on uneven surface without fall · Sprains

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Goodwill Recycling Center, 165 Romeo Lane, UNIONTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 15401 on — Sprains, affecting the ankle(s).

An employee was sitting on a recycling truck that was making pickups when she stepped down from the truck onto uneven gravel and sprained her ankle.

Hospitalized Ankle(s) Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker

Burton Pools and Spas

An employee was helping to install a new liner in a swimming pool. The employee entered the pool and stepped into a small uneven surface under the liner. The employee's right ankle twisted outward, resulting in a sprained ligament and a nondisplaced fracture to the right ankle.

Engineered Floors, LLC

An employee was looking for defects in a carpet while standing on the floor between a catwalk and the exit roller of a tufting machine. He stepped backward and tripped on the edge of the catwalk, grabbing onto the exit roller of the machine with his left hand in order to catch himself. While doing so, his left index finger went into the keyway hole on the rotating exit roller, which caused his left index finger to be lacerated.

United States Postal Service

An employee was delivering mail when she stepped on a board which broke, causing her to twist and fracture her ankle.

SEABOARD FOODS LIVE PRODUCTION

While walking in an office hallway, an employee slipped on a mat from a 6-inch step, suffering a dislocated knee.

Owl's Head Alloys West Point

An employee was going into a trailer to mark product for shipment and the trailer pulled away from the dock. The employee fell out of the trailer, contacted the dock plate, and then fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a punctured lung, fractured ribs, and contusions.

Heavy Weight Inc

An employee was checking on a machine outside of the building and removed a cover to clean out a blocked area. His hand was caught by a rotary valve in a dust collection machine. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Techemet, LP

A shear operator's hand and fingers were caught in a machine's point of operation. The operator's right index finger was crushed and was partially medically amputated.

ELG Metals, Inc - Chicago

An employee was operating a forklift. He parked on a ramp and got off the forklift to retrieve material, at which point the forklift rolled backward and ran over his leg. The leg was broken and he was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Florida Parishes Industries, Inc.

An employee was using a shear to cut metal when the blade cut his left ring finger and amputated his left little finger.

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.