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

Sands Drywall, Inc.

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Sands Drywall, Inc., DSU Cyber Labs, MADISON, SOUTH DAKOTA 57042 on — Fractures, affecting the knee(s).

An employee was taping drywall on stilts. The employee tripped on an electrical cord and fell to the ground, suffering a broken kneecap.

Hospitalized Knee(s) Tools, instruments, and equipment, n.e.c.

Electrical Contractors Inc.

An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.

M1 Support Services

An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.

FEDEX Ground Package System, Inc.

An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.

SRM Concrete

An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.

U.S. Postal Service - Los Angeles P&DC

An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.

Envelope Seal Insulation, Inc

An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

Builders Installed Products of New York, LLC

An employee was closing a rear trailer door in the parking lot when they were struck by a forklift. The employee's lower left leg was crushed between the pallet on the forklift and the trailer. The employee sustained muscle damage to their lower leg.

FC Drywall

An employee was cutting wood with a circular saw. The machine lagged and cut the employee's finger. The employee required surgical amputation of the finger at the hospital.

Garland Insulation

An employee was climbing a 12-foot ladder when he lost his balance and fell from the eighth rung to the ground. He sustained multiple broken ribs, which caused lung punctures.

Rochester Davis Fetch Corporation

An employee was installing spray-on fire proofing from a scissor lift. The scissor lift tipped over and the employee fell, resulting in multiple fractures to their leg, shoulder, and skull.

Simon Contractors of South Dakota, Inc.

An employee was moving a tensile strength test device with a dolly. The device fell from the dolly onto the employee's right leg, causing a compound fracture.

Agtegra Cooperative

An employee was walking past a crossover conveyor when a ramp came down and hit them in the back. The employee sustained a broken back vertebra, as well as a concussion, and was hospitalized.

Martin Brower Distribution Center

An employee was using a hook tool to pull a pallet onto the lift gate of a tractor trailer. The hook detached from the underside of the pallet, causing the employee to fall backward off the lift gate. The employee landed on the concrete parking lot about 5 feet below, suffering fractures to the skull and two thoracic vertebrae.

Mayfield Truss, LLC

An employee was walking on a truss table when he lost his balance and fell approximately 3 feet to the floor. The employee sustained a dislocated and fractured left ankle.