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

US Psstal Service

Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at US Psstal Service, 46 Grove St, PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY 07055 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the wrist(s).

An employee tripped over a curb and injured their wrist requiring surgery.

Hospitalized Wrist(s) Curbs

U.S. Postal Service

An employee was delivering mail when they tripped on a curb and fell to the ground, resulting in a kneecap injury.

Kettering Health

An employee was leaving work when they tripped over a curb in the parking lot and fell into a wall, resulting in a fractured left humerus.

RIVERSIDE MEDICAL

A nurse was visiting the home of a patient for requested treatment. She tripped on her gown while going up the steps to the property, falling and fracturing her left femur.

Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center

An employee tripped on a step while entering a house. The employee suffered a broken right femur and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Publix Supermarket

An employee was walking up an escalator that was out of service when they tripped on a step, fell, and suffered a closed fracture to the right femur as well as a dislocated right patella.

United States Postal Service

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

United States Postal Services

An employee was waiting for an operator to bring mail over to a mail sorting machine when she became pinned between the machine and a stack of pallets being pushed by a powered industrial truck (PIT). The employee suffered bruising and swelling on her hips, lower back, knees, and left side; a puncture wound to her left thigh from a machine screw; a crushed right hand with numbness and tingling; numbness to the left big toe; and a right wrist sprain.

U.S. Postal Service

An employee was walking back to a carrier case with mail in her hand when she tripped over a tub. Her back overarched as she fell, resulting in a fractured back that required hospitalization.

U.S. Postal Service

An employee delivered a package. On her way back to her vehicle she was attacked by two dogs that came from around a corner. She was hospitalized with dog bites.

United States Postal Service

An employee was struck by a powered industrial truck while traveling through a staging area. The employee was hospitalized with a broken left foot.

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.