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

Fedex Freight, Inc.

Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Fedex Freight, Inc., 470 E. Joe Orr Drive, CHICAGO HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS 60411 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.

While an employee was lowering a trailer, the landing gear on the trailer spun and struck the employee's right hand.

Hospitalized Hand(s), unspecified Trailers

Fedex Freight Inc.

An employee was rolling up the landing gear on his trailer when the handle began to unwind and struck his face, fracturing his jaw. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

FedEx Freight Inc.

On the loading dock, an employee was pulling freight out of a trailer using a pallet jack. The freight container broke, causing the employee to slip and fall. The employee sustained a fractured hip.

FedEx Freight, Inc.

On March 21, 2025, an employee was hooking a dolly to the back of a freight trailer. The dolly moved and pinned the employee's left leg against the trailer, resulting in a fracture.

FEDEX FREIGHT INC.

An employee was helping to unload freight from a semi-truck when the freight fell and struck them. The employee was hospitalized with injuries to their lower legs.

Fedex Freight Inc.

On June 10, 2024, an employee was delivering a transmission to a customer location. While dragging the delivery, he fell to the floor and suffered a broken hip. He was hospitalized.

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InterCon Construction, Inc.

A crew was pulling a 4-inch plastic gas pipe off a reel and straightening it for installation. The injured employee stepped up on the trailer to cut the last band holding the pipe in the coil on the reel. As he turned to step off the trailer, the end of the pipe rotated and sprung out of the cage surrounding the coil, striking the employee on the side of the head and knocking him off of the trailer into the roadway. The employee suffered head trauma that required hospitalization.

RAVA Construction, LLC

An employee and a co-worker were performing a pick inside a clear well. They rigged the skid pan that was full of broken concrete. When lifting, the load began to swing toward a wall. The employee tried to stop the skid pan from swinging and was struck by the pan, resulting in fractures to their left hip and wrist.

Stein, LLC

The employee had just completed refueling a lattice crane that was breaking up material and was winding the fuel hose back into the fuel truck when he was struck by the catwalk/stairs of the crane. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to his backside, possible internal bleeding, and a broken hip.

7 Site & Utility, LLC

An employee was fusing 10-inch black rubber utility pipes together using a pipe fusion machine and could not get the pipes to set correctly. The employee used a nylon strap attached to an excavator to lift one side of a pipe off a steel plate. As his hand was between two pipes, the pipes came back together, partially amputating two of his fingers.

Sterling Steel Company, LLC

An employee was lifting four bags of a lime blend weighing approximately 10,000 pounds using a crane. The load swung and pinned the employee against a structural I-beam, resulting in fractures to the hip and pelvis.

A&S Services Group

An employee fell while exiting a trailer. The employee landed on their left side on the pavement, suffering multiple broken ribs on the left side. The employee was hospitalized.

Southeastern Freight Lines

An employee was hooking up a set of 28-foot trailers, attaching a converter dolly to the lead trailer's pintle hook. He backed up the lead trailer and parked it a foot from the converter dolly, then lifted the converter dolly and rolled it to the lead trailer to set it onto the hook. The converter dolly kicked up, and the employee's left hand was caught between it and the trailer. He suffered a severe laceration to the palm between the ring finger and middle finger.

Texas TransEastern

An employee was cleaning the windshield of his truck. When he stepped down from the truck, he lost balance and reached to catch himself using the side mirror. The impact fractured his left wrist. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

HOGAN TRANSPORT

An employee was standing on the DOT bumper on the back of a standard 53-foot trailer. The employee lost his footing and his grip on the handle bar, and fell approximately 42 inches to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip/femur.

ARMELLINI EXPRESS LINES

A driver was making a delivery. As he was climbing onto his trailer to get boxes, the strap he was using to pull himself up broke. He fell from the back of the trailer to the ground, landing on his right leg and breaking his femur.

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.