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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

United Rentals (North America), Inc.

Struck by object or equipment, unspecified · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at United Rentals (North America), Inc., 3506 Chapman Lane, AUSTIN, TEXAS 78744 on — Fractures, affecting the thigh(s).

An employee was moving equipment when a J-hook came loose and struck his left leg, breaking his femur.

Hospitalized Thigh(s) Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

An excavator bucket was being removed. An employee was pulling a snap ring to remove a pin and lost his grip. The high-tension snap ring recoiled and his left middle fingertip was amputated by the snap ring.

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

An employee was walking around a truck in a grassy area. She slipped and fell, suffering fractures to her left foot.

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

An employee was installing a hydraulic cylinder on a boom lift. The cylinder slid down and caught the employee's right thumb resulting in a laceration and fracture to the right thumb.

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

An employee was servicing the generator. As the employee stepped over the containment berm, the employee slipped and fell on the generator trailer hitch, resulting in broken ribs.

United Rentals North America, Inc

An employee was setting up cribbing to complete an aerial lift track system repair. As he was lowering the jack stand, his hand was caught between an axle and the cribbing, resulting in partial amputation of their left index and left middle fingers at the first joint.

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An employee was preparing to remove leaf spring bushings on the front drive axle of a tandem axle tractor. After raising the axle with a hydraulic jack, he placed two jack stands under the rear frame rails of the tractor and placed additional jack stands under the front drive axle. He then repositioned himself at the rear of the tractor where he reached for the release valve of the jack to begin lowering the axle (and frame) onto the jack stands. He was in a kneeling position while using his right hand to operate the release valve. His left hand was caught between the lowering frame rail and a jack stand. His left ring and middle fingertips were crushed, resulting in amputations.

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After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

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An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

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An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

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An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

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An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.