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

Galaxie Industrial Services, LLC

Struck by discharged object or substance · Cuts, lacerations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Galaxie Industrial Services, LLC, 100 Pennsylvania Avenue, WEIRTON, WEST VIRGINIA 26062 on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.

An employee was cleaning inside a tank with a pressure washer. The stream from the washer cut through the employee's right boot and into the employee's foot.

Hospitalized Foot (feet), unspecified Pressurized water-blast

Robinson Renovation & Custom Homes, Inc.

An employee was installing wood trim surrounding a skylight inside a home. While holding a piece of trim in it's desired location, his pneumatic nail gun discharged, sending a 3/4-inch pin nail into his left forearm.

Weldship Corporation

An employee removed a safety valve on a trailer that unknowingly contained nitrogen gas. The gas released from the trailer and pushed the employee backward off a scaffold approximately 10 feet before they struck a garage door, resulting in a pelvic injury.

Conner Industries, Inc.

An employee was sitting at her workstation when a nail gun malfunctioned and shot a nail into her left leg. She suffered a puncture and blood vessel injury and was hospitalized.

HK Cooperative, Inc.

On November 25, 2023, an employee was using a high-pressured water hose to perform sewer line cleaning operations. The employee's right little finger and palm were lacerated by pressurized water from the hose.

HPC Industrial Group, LLC

An employee was hydroblasting when they slipped and the pressurized water stream lacerated their left ankle.

Daniels Health Ohio - Medical Waste

On July 24, 2025, an employee was unloading stacks of empty, 96-gallon medical waste containers. A stack of 10 containers, which weighed approximately 460 pounds, fell on him. The employee was hospitalized with multiple head, face, and neck injuries and a back injury requiring surgery.

Chemical Waste Management, Inc.

An employee was standing between a truck and a roll-off container that was being offloaded. The container came down on their left ankle. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration and fracture to the ankle.

NLR, Inc.

An employee was loading a gaylord into a truck when the gaylord ripped, causing him to lose his balance and fall from the liftgate to the pavement. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to his left wrist and femur.

Spring Grove Resource Recovery,Inc.

An employee was cleaning the back of a tractor trailer. The tractor trailer pulled away from the dock and the employee fell from the dock lock to the ground below, breaking their right femur.

Heritage-Crystal Clean LLC

An employee was preparing a load for the electric pallet jack he was operating. He was walking backward when he tripped and fell. The pallet jack struck his left leg, and he was hospitalized with a broken left fibula.

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.