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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Atlantic Health System

Overexertion in lifting-single episode · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Atlantic Health System, 97 West Parkway, POMPTON PLAINS, NEW JERSEY 07444 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified.

Two employees were repositioning a patient in bed when one of them suffered a back injury.

Hospitalized Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified Patient

Atlantic Health System

An employee was walking down stairs when he slipped and grabbed onto the railing to prevent himself from falling which resulted in injury to his left hip. The employee was hospitalized.

Atlantic Health System

An employee was checking for a kitten under a car that was on a car jack. The car fell off the jack and the employee sustained broken ribs and a compression fracture.

Atlantic Health System

An employee fell on the floor when her sneaker stuck to the floor while walking into the building. The employee suffered a fractured right arm.

Atlantic Health System

An employee was helping a patient walk at the patient's residence. The patient started to fall and the therapist got her arm caught and broken between the patient and a wheelchair.

Atlantic Health System

An employee was using an industrial-size table saw to cut a piece of recycled wood when the saw hit a nail in the wood and propelled the nail into the employee's forearm. He was hospitalized and had surgery.

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Koch Foods of Cincinnati, LLC

An employee was lifting a motor and reaching to place it on a machine when they sustained a back injury. The employee was hospitalized.

MERCY HOSPITAL

On 12/22/2023, an employee was carrying bins filled with pasta to a refrigerator. As he lifted a 20-pound bin, he felt pain in his lower back. The employee sustained a herniated disc.

Jefferson Lansdale Hospital

An employee was lifting a patient when they pulled a back muscle. She suffered back pain and spasms radiating into her leg with weakness and numbness. The employee's L3-L4 disc was herniated and she was hospitalized.

Raytheon Company

An employee was lifting boxes when they suffered a strained back, resulting in hospitalization.

FUSE BUILDS LLC

An employee was lifting a bundle of insulation with a colleague when he felt severe pain in the right side of his lower back/hip region. The employee sustained a severe muscle injury.

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.

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.

SIH Memorial Hospital of Carbondale

An employee slipped on water in a hospital hallway, fell, and landed on his left hip. He suffered a contusion and fracture to the hip.

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

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.