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

Thermo Fischer Scientific

Exposure to environmental heat · Heat exhaustion, prostration

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Thermo Fischer Scientific, 1 Reagent Lane, FAIR LAWN, NEW JERSEY 07410 on — Heat exhaustion, prostration, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.

An employee had been filling steel kegs and moving the kegs using material handling equipment when the employee began to feel unwell, requiring hospitalization for heat exhaustion.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Heat-environmental

Great Northwest Concrete

An employee was performing finishing work on a residential driveway when they began to experience body cramps and were hospitalized for heat stress and dehydration.

Lady Moon Farms, Inc.

An employee was staking tomato plants on a farm. The employee began to feel sick and collapsed, suffering from dehydration and heat shock.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

An agent was participating in SWAT team selection and was performing various physical fitness skills including running and exercise intervals. The agent experienced dehydration and a muscular injury that required hospitalization.

Hi-Tech Roofing & Sheetmetal, Inc.

An employee was traveling back from work when they became ill and experienced dizziness due to heat exhaustion.

2911 Logistics

On September 26, 2023, an employee was delivering packages when he began to feel ill with a pain in his side. He was hospitalized for heat exhaustion and dehydration.

Amspec LLC

An employee was boarding a barge. As he stepped onto the gangway, it shifted and the handrail he was using collapsed, causing him to fall and strike his right knee against the gangway. His patellar tendon was torn.

GCP Laboratories, Inc

An employee was inspecting the tension of a belt on the motor of a labeler machine when his right index finger got caught in a pulley. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Cheminstruments, Inc.

An employee was feeding stainless steel (2 x 6) sheet metal into a shear machine inside the warehouse. The pressure plate on the shear machine crushed the employee's right index fingertip. The employee sustained an amputation of the fingertip pad.

Elementar Americas Inc.

An employee was unpackaging fuel samples onto a table when they started having an allergic reaction resulting in facial swelling, red/itchy skin, hives, and respiratory symptoms. They were hospitalized.

Tower Laboratories, Ltd

An employee was advancing a sheet of foil through the knife on a pouch packaging machine when the knife cut his left index finger. The employee sustained an approximately 4-millimeter fingertip amputation.

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.