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

Whole Foods Market, Inc.

Shooting by other person-intentional · Gunshot wounds

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Whole Foods Market, Inc., 600 H St., NE, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 20002 on — Gunshot wounds, affecting the head and trunk.

A grocery store cashier was shot twice (once in the cheek, once grazing the chest) by a handgun during an attempted armed robbery.

Hospitalized Head and trunk Robber

Whole Foods Market, Inc.

An employee was cutting a veal shank using a bandsaw when the shank bone slipped. The employee's thumb was then cut by the bandsaw, resulting in a partial right thumb amputation.

Whole Foods Market, Inc.

Worker amputated his thumb from the knuckle to the tip with a large knife while filleting a fish.

Whole Foods Market, Inc.

Worker engaged in warehouse activities experienced respiratory distress. Worker was hospitalized due to an allergic reaction to buckwheat flour.

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Walmart Supercenter

An employee and two customers were involved in a verbal altercation that escalated into a physical altercation. The employee was shot in the left thigh by the customer and required surgery.

Stoweco LLC

An employee was involved in a dispute with a campground customer when the customer fired a shotgun. The employee's finger was partially amputated and his head was grazed by a bullet. The employee was also shot in the thigh.

WDS Pak Source, LLC

On December 28, 2023, an employee was hospitalized after being shot three times in the torso by another employee.

Family Dollar

An employee was in the parking lot, leaving the job site, when they were shot in the left wrist.

U.S. Department of Interior

A U.S. Park Police Officer sustained multiple gunshot wounds during an engagement with an armed assailant who was attempting to flee the scene of a crime. The officer was hospitalized and required surgery.

Fortune Foods Texas Inc.

Employee 1 was investigating a gas odor. While employee 1 was checking the equipment, a gas explosion occurred, resulting in a fire that burned the employee's face. Employee 2 entered the area and a second explosion occurred, causing burns to their face and arms. Employee 2 was hospitalized.

Giant Food Stores

An employee tripped while walking from one store register station to another. Her forehead struck a register, and she suffered fractures to two vertebrae in her neck. She was hospitalized.

Meijer Stores Limited Partnership

An employee was pulling a display shipper using the provided strap. The strap broke and the employee fell to the floor, suffering a broken wrist.

Shady Maple Farm Market, Inc.

An employee fell down a flight of stairs to the floor and suffered contusions and lacerations to the forehead and lips. She was hospitalized.

Harris Teeter #352

An employee was stocking and ordering the meat case on the sales floor when he slipped and fell due to water on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.

Smart Building Technologies - A Fidelity Company

An employee was troubleshooting the control setup for a variable air volume box above a ceiling. The employee's hand came into contact with an exposed, energized 277-volt wire that had loosened from its terminal on the box's assembly. He was shocked and fell off a ladder. His left hand passed across the ceiling grid and was lacerated. He also suffered an electrical burn to the right hand and was hospitalized.

Goodrich Fire & Life Safety

An employee was assembling a baker type scaffold. He was beginning to transverse down the scaffold, approximately six feet off the ground, when the scaffold tipped over and he fell. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured femur.

Harris Teeter #352

An employee was stocking and ordering the meat case on the sales floor when he slipped and fell due to water on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.

Georgetown University

An employee was working on an exhaust fan on the roof when he tripped on a wire and fell to the ground. The employee sustained scrapes on his elbow, and a fractured right knee with a torn ACL. The employee was hospitalized.

United Masonry and Landscaping, LLC

An employee was climbing a scaffold when he slipped and fell 10 to 15 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle.