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

Vistar New England

Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Vistar New England, 175 Sullivan Avenue, SOUTH WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT 06074 on — Fractures, affecting the lumbar region.

On June 18, 2019, an employee was operating a riding pallet jack. She was thrown from the pallet jack and collided with a rack, suffering a lower lumbar fracture. She was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Lumbar region Pallet jack-powered

Allied Universal Security Services

An employee was patrolling a store using an electric patrol scooter when they lost their balance and sustained an ankle fracture.

Zenith Logistics, Inc.

An employee was operating a forklift to move panels around the dock area when the vehicle struck a joint where the two floors meet. The employee lurched forward and struck his head on the steering wheel. The employee then fell from the vehicle and sustained a dislocated disc in their back, requiring hospitalization.

SouthernCarlson

An employee was standing inside a semi-trailer when the driver of the semi-trailer pulled away, causing the employee to fall backward and strike their head on a steel dock plate. The employee suffered a skull fracture, a fractured L1 vertebra, a broken coccyx, a laceration/abrasion to the head, and a brain bleed.

US Agricultural Research Services

An employee was riding an ATV, catching up with a stray cow to return it to a pen. The ATV tire struck a hole or other obstacle, causing the employee to be ejected and fall to the ground. His leg was broken and he was hospitalized.

Manheim Philadelphia Auto Auction

An employee was driving a van in reverse when they fell out of the vehicle and landed on the ground in the parking lot. The employee sustained a fractured left hip.

GXO Logistics

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

PVH, Corp.

A temporary employee was punched in the face by another temporary employee. He suffered a laceration to the eye.

Ace Hardware International LLC

An employee was backing up a powered industrial vehicle. Her left hand was caught between the vehicle and a rack, and the wrist was broken.

Agave Wire Ltd

An employee was operating an extruder and performing a spool swap over from the right spindle to the left spindle. After rewiring the new spool, the employee's clothing got caught in the turning shaft when the left spindle started back up. The employee's left arm was pulled into the machine, resulting in a fractured humerus and lacerations to her triceps. She was hospitalized and required surgery.

M&M Quality Solutions

An employee was resetting a warehouse racking system utilizing an order picker. They fell approximately 5 feet from the order picker to the concrete floor and sustained fractured ribs.

Heavy Weight Inc

An employee was checking on a machine outside of the building and removed a cover to clean out a blocked area. His hand was caught by a rotary valve in a dust collection machine. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Duro Bag

An employee was working to clean a glue roller with a scraper tool. The tool and the employee's left thumb were pinched between two rollers, resulting in a partial amputation.

United Refrigeration Inc

An employee was re-arranging boxes of pipe insulation on a pallet. One of the boxes fell from the pallet and knocked over an upright empty cylinder. The cylinder fell and crushed the tip of the employee's right toe. The employee's toe required surgical amputation.

Michels Power, Inc.

An employee was securing the claw of a grapple truck to the truck bed. His left little finger was caught between the tie down strap and the rub rail of the truck, resulting in partial amputation of the finger.

Parker-Hannifin Corporation

An employee was cutting extruded aluminum framing material using a horizontal band saw. She went to grab a rag in the machine when the rag contacted the blade and pulled her hand in toward the blade, resulting in a partial amputation of the right index finger.