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

Help at Home, LLC.

Other animal bites, nonvenomous · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Help at Home, LLC., 713 East 13th Street, ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA 16503 on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

An employee was bitten by a client's cat on the finger. The wound became infected, requiring hospitalization.

Hospitalized Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Cats, felines-domestic

Help at Home, LLC

An employee was shopping with a client. While walking on a sidewalk, he slipped on ice and fell, suffering a broken fibula.

Help at Home LLC

An employee was walking in the yard of a client's residence when they slipped, tripped, and fell onto the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured arm and hip.

Help at Home LLC

An employee tripped over a telephone cord and fell.

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While standing on a step stool to clean a mirror, an employee fell backward onto a hard surface and suffered a back injury.

Help At Home LLC

While removing objects from their car at a client's home, a home health care employee was stabbed in the stomach with a knife.

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PetSmart- Store 422

An employee was opening a kennel door to take a dog on a walk when the dog bit his hand/finger. The employee suffered a partial finger amputation that required surgery.

Angel's Pet Hospital

On December 19, 2023, an employee entered a cat kennel to remove a litter box and food and water dishes. The employee was bitten by a cat on her left hand. She noticed swelling the next day, resulting in hospitalization.

U.S. Postal Service

A letter carrier was delivering mail when a dog attacked him. The employee's right index fingertip was amputated at the first knuckle.

Miramar West Animal Hospital

An employee was assisting a doctor with treating a dog when the dog bit them on their face near their eye.

Community Partners

An employee was helping a patient who was carrying a cat up the stairs. The cat bit the employee on their right forearm, resulting in an infection that required hospitalization.

Gateway Healthcare, Inc.

An employee was talking to a child on the playground, when the child grabbed her hand to lead her away. The employee stepped, lost her balance, and fell over. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture of her lower left leg and required surgery.

Aveanna Healthcare

An employee was seated in the living room of a patient's residence, waiting for the patient to arrive home from school. The school bus driver honked the horn, signaling that the patient was ready to be assisted off the bus. The employee stood up and then tripped and fell over a rug and possibly the edge of an ottoman. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right humerus at the shoulder.

Accentcare Home Health Inc.

An employee was assisting a client when the client fell on top of the employee. The employee's hip was fractured.

Help at Home

An employee was retrieving their purse and keys when they tripped over a cord and fell to the ground, resulting in a broken arm and five broken ribs.

Elara Caring

An employee was carrying two bags of laundry down some steps. She missed a step and tumbled forward, suffering a neck injury. She was hospitalized.

Main Line Clinical Labs

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Ardent Mills

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

Zimmerman & Herr

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

McAneny Brothers, Inc.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

Metz Culinary Management LLC

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.