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

Emory

Rubbed or abraded by friction or pressure, n.e.c. · Other burns, first degree

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Emory, 100 Water Tower Place, ATLANTA, GEORGIA 30322 on — Other burns, first degree, affecting the face, unspecified.

An employee was mowing the lawn when the mower caught a silt fence, pulling the stakes out of the ground. A wooden stake then struck his face, causing a burn.

Hospitalized Face, unspecified Wooden stakes

Emory

An employee stood up to check in and assist a patient. When she went to sit back down, she missed the chair and fell to the floor, injuring her right hip.

Emory

An employee was walking down the stairs to a basement to make a repair when he slipped on the last few stairs, fell to the floor, and fractured his kneecap.

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Alliance Steel Corporation

On May 3, 2019, a forklift was moving pallets when the forks struck and broke a pipe. The injured employee went to examine the broken pipe when a blast of air struck the employee causing a surface burn to their right arm and hand.

Structures and Interiors Inc.

An employee worked with a foreign object inside his boot. After removing the boot at home, the employee found blood and was later sent to the hospital for an infection.

Tindall Mechanical

Employee was bleeding the pressure off a weighted ball used to check stormwater pipes for leaks. The weight of the water inside the PVC pipe caused the ball to slide down the pipe. Employee grabbed the rope strap with his right hand and the strap's force and sharp edge severed his right-thumb tip. The finger tip was recovered and delivered to Parkland Hospital, but didn't have enough bone to be reattached.

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.

GS II Building Products, Inc.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

US Battery Manufacturing Company, Inc

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

Alfa Insurance

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

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.

Bull Moose Tube

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.