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

Gemco Roofing & Bldg. Supply, Inc.

Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Gemco Roofing & Bldg. Supply, Inc., 2601 Van Buren St., BELLWOOD, ILLINOIS 60104 on — Fractures, affecting the upper and lower limb(s).

On May 3, 2019, an employee was struck by a reversing forklift resulting in a fractured wrist and a broken ankle.

Hospitalized Upper and lower limb(s) Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

Bauducco Foods, Inc.

An employee was walking in an aisle when a forklift backed up over her foot, resulting in a skin injury that required surgery to repair.

S. H. Bell Company

An employee was looking into the bucket of a front-end loader to see how much material was in it. A skid steer backed into the employee, who then fell into the edge of the front loader's bucket and suffered internal bleeding in the abdominal area.

SHM Newport Shipyard, LLC

An employee was spotting for a forklift operation. The forklift backed over the employee, who suffered a complete amputation to one lower leg and a partial amputation to the other leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Oil City Iron Works, Inc.

An employee was cleaning his work area and preparing it to begin making air-set molds when a nearby forklift that was backing out from a load swung around and struck the employee. They sustained a lower left leg fracture.

Canyon Falls Farms

An employee was walking around a work area when he was struck by a forklift that was backing up, resulting in several broken bones in his foot.

Cousin's Waterproofing LLC

Employees were at the trucks to leave for lunch. The injured employee was putting the cone back after the crew leader pulled the truck forward from the designated worker parking area. The injured employee then ran back to the truck. As he went to get in the truck, he said the upper thigh area of his leg was hurting. He laid on the ground outside the truck and crew leader could see a bump/bulge in the the injured employee's upper thigh area below his hip. The employee sustained a fractured femur and required surgery.

Certainteed Roofing

An employee was helping a contractor unload a delivery of two new dock plates from a trailer onto a forklift. The employee s left index and middle fingers were pinched by the dock plates, resulting in amputations to both fingers above the first joint.

Metal Mart #31

An employee was helping to load a customer's truck. The employee stepped toward a forklift to get paperwork from the driver. The employee's right lower leg and foot were run over by the back tire of the forklift. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to his lower right leg.

AMERICAN BUILDERS & CONTRACTORS SUPPLY CO., INC.

An employee was moving wet bundles of shingles on a truck bed, when one of the bundles slipped out of his hands. He tripped over a pallet, fell off the bed of the truck, and landed on his left side. The employee sustained fractures to three ribs, and a displaced iliac fracture.

SRS Distribution Inc.

On August 12, 2025, an employee was loading shingles onto the roof of a new-construction home when be began to suffer from heat exhaustion and dehydration.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.