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

Ingalls Memorial Hospital

Direct exposure to electricity, 220 volts or less · Electrocutions, electric shocks

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Ingalls Memorial Hospital, 1 Ingalls Drive, HARVEY, ILLINOIS 60426 on — Electrocutions, electric shocks, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.

While plugging a computer into a wall outlet, an employee was shocked. She suffered lasting tremors and right-side weakness.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Power cords, electrical cords, extension cords

Best Buy

An employee was repairing a microwave at a customer's residence when he suffered an electrical shock, which caused burns to both his hands.

Seabrook Village, Inc.

An employee was setting up music for a fitness class. As the employee plugged their personal device into the outlet, she was shocked. The employee experienced pain in her left side, mainly in her arm and head.

NY Developers & Management Inc

Two employees were testing the phase voltage of the 208 volt bus bar circuit. An arc flash occurred during the testing. One employee suffered burns to the face, neck, and hands. Another employee suffered burns to his arm.

Anchor Construction Corporation

An employee was in a manhole pulling a 120-volt spider to connect it. The spider snapped and struck his chest. He was shocked and hospitalized.

Daystar

An employee was wrapping lights around a tree when their right arm contacted exposed wires, resulting in electric shock.

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.

NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

SIH Memorial Hospital of Carbondale

An employee slipped on water in a hospital hallway, fell, and landed on his left hip. He suffered a contusion and fracture to the hip.

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.