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

Viacom, Inc.

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Viacom, Inc., Prudential Center, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07102 on — Fractures, affecting the chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders.

An employee was setting up a stage for a television event when he fell 5 feet off the stage and struck his chest on the edge of the stage, sustaining fractured ribs.

Hospitalized Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders Scaffolds-self-supporting staging

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.

Tactical Empathy LLC

An employee was working as a background extra for a movie. She slipped while walking through the holding/catering area, falling to the ground and striking her right elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured elbow.

Big Indie Omega, Inc

An employee was dismantling a film set. He was standing on top of a wooden beam when he lost his balance and fell approximately 10 feet to the ground below, striking his head on a standing light. He sustained injuries to his head, torso, and shoulders. A guardrail was in place at the time of the injury.

Apple Studios LLC

An employee had been sitting in a truck that was not on and had no air conditioning. The employee felt ill and was hospitalized for heat illness.

Accenture Song Production Studios

A photographer was walking through a studio toward the production table during a photoshoot. The photographer tripped on a power cord that was taped in place on the floor with a cord cover. The photographer fell, fractured her right hip, and was hospitalized.

Capital Concerts, Inc.

An employee was on a temporary loading dock, receiving pieces of a large tent structure from a telehandler. She was working to straighten a packing blanket when the telehandler lowered it's tines onto her left hand. Her middle finger was degloved from the first knuckle up. The finger required surgical amputation from the first knuckle up.

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.