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

Powers 24 Hour Towing Services, Inc.

Fall onto or against object on same level, n.e.c. · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Powers 24 Hour Towing Services, Inc., 4722 Roosevelt Rd, HILLSIDE, ILLINOIS 60162 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the knee(s) and leg(s).

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An employee slipped on a boot dryer on the floor. She struck a credenza, suffering knee and tibia injuries.

Hospitalized Knee(s) and leg(s) Floor, n.e.c.

Natures Products, Inc.

An employee was on a two-step ladder performing cleaning activities in the de-oiler machine. The employee fell back and his right arm was caught in the equipment, resulting in a right forearm fracture that required surgery.

General Dynamics Ordnance And Tactical Systems, Inc.

An employee was changing an insert in the tool head of a CNC machine. The employee had stepped up approximately 28 inches onto the door track of the machine. When the employee went to step back down to the floor, they lost balance and fell backward onto a rack of metal parts. The employee sustained a compression fracture to the spine.

Coilplus Inc.

An employee was packaging steel coils on a turntable. As he walked across the turntable, he slipped and fell onto a coil. His left bicep was lacerated by the slit edge of a coil.

Commercial Lumber Sales Inc

An employee was monitoring a lumber-stacking machine when they slipped and fell into an unbanded bundle of lumber. The outer row of lumber then fell on their left leg, fracturing their leg and ankle.

The Hiller Companies, LLC

An employee was putting parts away in a warehouse. He tripped and fell into metal shelving, resulting in a broken arm.

Broad & James, Inc.

An employee was installing a hydraulic extension cylinder in a tow truck when their leg was caught between the cylinder and the truck frame. The employee was hospitalized with a broken tibia, which required surgery.

Red Line Towing, Inc

An employee was underneath a flatbed truck, using a jack to lower the truck down. The truck began to roll and crushed the employee's right lower leg, resulting in hospitalization.

The Auto Club Group, Inc.

An employee was pushing a disabled vehicle while on a service call. The vehicle started to roll back and the employee placed his right foot on the back of the tire to hold the vehicle in place. The vehicle rolled over the employee's right foot, resulting in a fracture.

P W TOWING INC

An employee was loading a car on the bed of a tow truck when his right hand got caught between the vehicle tire and the truck railing, resulting in broken fingers, an injury to his index fingernail, lacerations to his ring finger, and amputation of his middle fingertip.

United Towing & Transport, St. Louis Inc

An employee was unloading a client vehicle when the vehicle started rolling. The employee ran to the front of the vehicle trying to stop it but he fell down and the vehicle then rolled over his foot. The employee sustained a fractured toe, a left tibia fracture and puncture of the skin. The employee was hospitalized.

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.