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

Wire Rope Works, Incorporated

Exposure to environmental heat · Effects of heat and light, n.e.c.

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Wire Rope Works, Incorporated, 100 Maynard St, WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA 17701 on — Effects of heat and light, n.e.c., affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.

Two employees were untangling lines along a furnace line when one of them, suffering from heat dehydration, became dazed and fell. The employee head struck the concrete floor, causing a head wound.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Heat-environmental

Wire Rope Works, Incorporated

On January 22, 2015, an employee operating a rough terrain forklift on frozen ground felt a "pop" in his back. The employee reported the incident to management the following day, went to an emergency room on two occasions, visited a doctor, and had an MRI before being diagnosed with a spinal epidural hematoma and admitted into Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania, on January 28, 2015.

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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.

OKLAHOMA STEEL & WIRE CO. INC.

An employee was driving a powered industrial truck (PIT) carrying a nesting sheave on the back counterweight of the PIT. He was holding the sheave when the PIT struck a pothole in the floor, causing the sheave to roll forward and crush his right index fingertip against the back of the PIT seat frame. The employee's fingertip was amputated, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Certified Slings & Supply

An employee was building slings. They were placing wire rope in a pneumatic vise when their right index finger was caught between the vise and the wire rope, resulting in a fracture that required hospitalization and surgery.

Trion Industries, Inc.

On September 15, 2025, an employee was working on an auto-welder when the guard closed on their left ring finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Bright Coop, Inc

At about 7:15 a.m. on August 28, 2025, an employee was using a construction compactor to stabilize the dirt of a dam that had just been built. The dirt gave way underneath the compactor, which tipped on its left side. The employee fell out and was crushed and pinned between the compactor and the dirt. He was hospitalized, having suffered a broken sternum and broken ribs on both sides, as well as a laceration to the left leg by the ankle joint.

Viakable Manufacturing LLC

A temporary employee was stripping wire for scrap when the machine crushed their left thumb and 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.