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

Kawasaki Rail Cart, Inc.

Exposure to electricity, unspecified · Electrocutions, electric shocks

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Kawasaki Rail Cart, Inc. , 93-59 183rd Street, JAMAICA, NEW YORK 11412 on — Electrocutions, electric shocks, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.

While checking the meter voltage on a rail, an employee experienced an electric shock to the right hand.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Railroad tracks

Skysill Power Services

An employee was shocked in their upper torso and sustained burns to their chest and arms.

Thirty-One Gifts, LLC

An employee was on a ladder, working on lighting in a conference room ceiling. The employee was shocked and fell from the ladder to the floor. The employee lost consciousness and sustained burns.

Bath Iron Works

An employee was shocked while practicing tack welding.

Costco Wholesale Corporation

At about 4:15 p.m. on December 16, 2020, an employee suffered an electrical shock while working with a soaker sink in a meat department.

Eagle Railcar Services - Gordon, Georgia, LLC.

An employee was ascending a hopper car. As he neared the top of the car, he grabbed the hand hold on a running board. The running board shifted, causing the employee to fall to the concrete shop floor. He sustained a fractured left hand and dislocated fingers.

Watco Companies Mechanical Services

On July 15, 2024, an employee was climbing the fixed side ladder of a railcar while performing a visual inspection when they missed a grab bar on the ladder, falling to the ground and suffering a fractured right femur.

ZA Construction,LLC

An employee was removing a forklift from a trailer when the lift fell sideways onto the ground and pinned his right leg underneath it. The employee suffered a broken tibia and fibula and other injury to his lower right leg that caused an amputation below the knee.

Cando Rail Services Inc.

An employee was training during a locomotive inspection. As he was observing two other employees, he slipped on ice and uneven ground and fell, resulting in a fracture to the tibia/fibula at the ankle. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

Saddle Creek Logistics Services

During assembly of a table, an employee collapsed and hit their head on an L-shaped guard on the floor.

Garden Angels New York LLC

An employee was cleaning leaves with a backpack blower when he fell from a ladder, resulting in injuries to his head, neck, and back.

Cashless Tolling Constructors

An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.

NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

VILLAGER CONSTRUCTION, INC.

An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.