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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

U.S. Census Bureau, Los Angeles Regional Census Center

Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at U.S. Census Bureau, Los Angeles Regional Census Center, Santa Rosa, SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA 95401 on — Fractures, affecting the knee(s).

An employee was walking down a driveway. Her left foot hit raised pavement and she fell. Both her knees, both her hands, and her face struck the ground; she suffered a broken left patella, a sprained left wrist, and bruising under her lips.

Hospitalized Knee(s) Street, road, or driveway irregularity

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U.S. Postal Service

An employee was walking to a customer's door to deliver a package when they tripped on uneven pavement and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a hip fracture.

Nordstrom

An employee was leaving work for the day when he tripped over mulch and fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with a fractured hip.

4M Building Solutions

An employee was walking on the sidewalk toward the front entrance of the building to start her work shift. She tripped over uneven pavement and fell onto the concrete sidewalk. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip and a sprained left knee.

Spirit Aerosystems, Inc.

An employee was walking into work through a doorway when she tripped on the door sill and fell to the floor, fracturing her humerus.

Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity

An employee was leaving for lunch. The wheel of her knee scooter struck a divot in the floor which caused her to fall into a metal rack. The employee sustained a broken right shoulder.

U.S. Dept. of the Air Force

An employee was on a four-step work stand while sanding an area of an aircraft. He was climbing down the work stand when he tripped over an air hose and fell to the level below, resulting in a fractured femur.

Bureau of Land Management Las Vegas District

A Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employee was assisting a fire crew with clearing a forest trail. The employee was struck in the left leg by a fire-rated chainsaw. The chainsaw struck the employee underneath their chaps and above their boot. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Katmai Government Services

An employee handed a fuel hose to another employee at a gas station pump and then turned around, tripped over the hose, and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip.

Bureau of Land Management

An employee was conducting fire suppression operations on a wildfire. He pulled a hose from the engine. He then charged the hose and began to put on his gloves. A flareup occurred and the employee sustained burns to his face and hands.

Department of Justice - USMS

The injured employee was assisting a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) enforcement operation. During an apprehension, officers returned fire at a subject and struck the employee with a bullet. The employee sustained a gunshot wound to their right hand.

M1 Support Services

The injured employee was assisting in the disassembly phase after a radar array had been lowered and secured. The crew began removing load bearing pins from an overhead crane to free the radome. A load bearing pin was stuck. The injured employee went to remove the pin manually as a second team member applied pressure from the opposite side. The pin unexpectedly released and struck the injured employee s right thumb, resulting in partial amputation of the distal phalanx including an open distal phalanx fracture and nail bed laceration.

Dept. of Defense - USN

An employee was working on an electrical panel in a mechanical room when an arc flash occurred. The employee suffered burns.

Dept. of Homeland Security - CBP

At about 3:10 p.m. on October 3, 2025, an employee was inspecting a car. Two dogs that had been in another car were leashed and tethered to a bollard. As the employee inspected the first car along with a narcotics detection dog, one of the other dogs came loose and attacked the narcotics dog. The employee was separating the dogs when the other dog bit his left ring finger. The last joint of the finger was injured and part of it was bitten off.

Sycuan Casino Resort

An employee was preparing a bundle of green onions for chopping. While holding the bundle in his left hand, he made his first cut using a 9-inch kitchen knife held in his right hand. The knife contacted the tip of his left thumb, resulting in an amputation of approximately 0.5 inches of the thumb that required hospitalization.