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

J. A. Johnson Paving Company

Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in roadway · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at J. A. Johnson Paving Company, 11th & McAllister street, NORTH CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60064 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the head and neck.

An employee was struck by a pickup truck as it backed up, suffering head and neck injuries.

Hospitalized Head and neck Pickup truck

Capstone Logistics, LLC

An employee was talking to a forklift operator when the forklift backed into the employee, resulting in a fractured ankle.

Allied Waste Services of Fort Worth, LLC

An employee was standing at the rear of a garbage truck loading trash when the front passenger tire struck his ankle/foot. The employee was knocked down and the tire rolled over him, resulting in fractures to his ribs and ankle.

Folsom Tree Service, LLC

An employee was standing on the street, preparing to leave a job site. A pickup truck with a wood chipper trailer was backing up and pinned the employee against the front of a skid steer. The employee suffered multiple fractures to the right femur.

Waterfield Florida Staffing, LLC

A temporary employee was removing a traffic cone on a street when a delivery truck backed into him. He fell and suffered a back injury.

Meridian Waste, LLC.

On October 8, 2021, an employee was on the back side of a truck, giving the driver directions to back up the truck to get close to two garbage cans. The truck struck him, causing fractures to his pelvic bone and sacrum. He was hospitalized.

Stevenson Crane Service, Inc.

A crew was relocating a dumpster (containing approximately 200 pounds of demolished wire) to access the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units they were servicing. During movement of the dumpster, a section of carpet tile dislodged from the floor, causing an employee to lose his footing, slip, and fall. He landed on his right wrist, resulting in a fracture.

Champion Replacement Windows of Kansas City

An employee was cutting a board using a circular saw. The saw pinched, kicked back, and cut the employee's left ring and little fingers. The employee suffered an amputation to the little finger.

Severo Ortiz Construction LLC

An employee was using an aluminum extension ladder to remove gutters at a height of approximately 20 feet. As they were removing the gutters, part of the gutter collapsed and struck the ladder, causing it to move sideways. The employee fell from the ladder and sustained fractures to ribs on the left side and their right forearm.

Fence Repair Company

An employee was using an electric saw to cut a piece of wood for a fence. The saw slipped out of his hand and lacerated his left leg. He was hospitalized.

Beth-Allen Scaffold & Equipment

An employee was erecting a scaffold. A side bracket was not secure. The employee stepped on the bracket to test it and fell 18 feet to the concrete floor resulting in fractures to the ankles and femurs. He was not using fall protection equipment.

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.