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

Pride Solvents & Chemical Co. Inc. of NJ

Nonvenomous insect bites · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Pride Solvents & Chemical Co. Inc. of NJ, 211 Randolph Avenue, AVENEL, NEW JERSEY 07001 on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the nonclassifiable.

An employee was hospitalized on 12/21/2018 for an infection resulting from a spider bite that happened at work.

Hospitalized Nonclassifiable Spiders, scorpions

BriteView Landscape Services

While conducting landscaping, an employee was bitten by an insect. The employee sustained an infection.

Inline Plastics Corp.

An employee was bitten on the leg by a spider while cleaning cobwebs and developed an infection.

Pratt & Whitney

An employee was bitten by an insect. The bite became infected, and the employee was hospitalized.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY

On May 24, 2019, an employee was bitten by a spider. The employee was hospitalized the next day when the bite became infected.

Westin Fort Lauderdale

An insect bit an employee who was working at a caf . The bite became infected, and the employee was hospitalized.

HEXPOL Compounding PC, Inc.

Two employees were lifting a roll of steel poly bar (50 inches and approximately 150 pounds) from ground level to a height of 4 feet at the 66-inch rubber calendar. One employee dropped the roll, resulting in the poly bar contacting the injured employee's right knee. The employee was hospitalized with fractured right patella.

Lyondellbasell

Employees were loading a 295-pound transformer onto a pickup truck using a forklift. The injured employee was acting as the spotter. The transformer hit the tailgate of the pickup truck and the spotter's right hand was struck by the transformer, resulting in amputation of the ring fingertip.

STEPAN COMPANY

An employee was wearing full PPE while emptying a 55-gallon drum of phosphorus pentoxide and fainted, collapsing and striking their head against the ground. The employee was hospitalized and it is likely that heat caused by wearing full body PPE contributed to fainting.

BASF Corporation

An employee was troubleshooting a plug in the super-absorbent polymer line. The employee opened an inspection port and their right hand was caught in a rotary valve, resulting in the amputation of four fingers between the knuckle and the first joint.

Galata Chemicals LLC

An employee was conducting a quality control measure by taking a chemical sample for lab analysis. When the employee was opening the sample point, it broke off and crude 2-Ethylhexyl thioglycolate (EHTG) shot out at 265 degrees, and it covered the employee's legs and right arm and splashed the right side of their face. The employee was hospitalized with first- and second-degree burns to their right thigh, lower right knee, inner left thigh, and upper left forearm.

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.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.