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

W&W Paint and Glass, LLC

Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at W&W Paint and Glass, LLC, ECMC, BUFFALO, NEW YORK 14215 on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.

An employee was struck by a piece of wood that fell off a swing stage scaffold and suffered a broken leg.

Hospitalized Leg(s), unspecified Wood, lumber, unspecified

Performance Contractors, Inc.

An employee was moving a piece of an I-beam for welding when it rolled off the cribbing. The employee went to catch it when it fell and crushed the employee's finger, resulting in a partial amputation.

WIRECO WORLDGROUP, INC.

An employee was helping to disassemble large reels used to store steel wire when a 264-pound flange from the reel fell over onto the employee's left leg. The employee sustained multiple fractures to their leg and ligament injuries to the lower leg.

Owens & Minor - Pittsburgh Distribution Center

The injured employee was putting away materials on the warehouse floor as a co-worker was pushing a pallet onto a nearby shelf. The pallet knocked another pallet forward, causing it to fall onto the injured employee's shoulders. The employee suffered fractures in their right and left knees and ankles.

Retro Tech Systems

Employees were moving a single man lift into a building and reclining the lift to position it to fit through the door. The lift shifted and fell, causing the employee to sustain fractures to the left tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery.

Creston Energy Group

An employee was moving a light tower so it could be hitched to a truck. He grabbed the tongue of the trailer hitch on the light tower to slide it to the left. The tongue jack fell off, causing the light tower tongue to drop on the employee's right hand. The employee's middle fingertip was amputated.

WB Painting LLC

An employee was on a 12-foot extension ladder while painting the wall and soffit area of a pavilion less than 6 feet off the ground. The employee was using a sprayer when he fell off ladder and landed on his arm on the dirt clay ground. The employee sustained a dislocated elbow and fractures to his right arm and wrist that included an open fracture. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Tanksco, Inc.

An employee was blasting a water tower. They fell approximately 60 feet off a suspended scaffold and sustained broken vertebrae, a compound fracture of the tibia, a fractured heel, and a rupture to their liver. The employee was hospitalized.

Tanksco, Inc.

An employee was sandblasting paint from a water tower when the blasting media sprayed across their forearm, resulting in an elbow injury that required hospitalization.

Forbes Painting Services

An employee was working from a boom lift, painting wood trim at a second-story roof level. The lift drove over an unmarked dry well, tipped, and catapulted the employee to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to their heels and vertebrae. Fall protection was not being worn at the time of the incident.

Kinard Painting & Sandblasting

On October 2, 2025, an employee was ascending a ladder attached to a scaffold structure approximately 10 feet high. While climbing up, he lost his grip on a rung and fell to the ground, landing on his shoulder. He was hospitalized with fractures to his collarbone and shoulder.

Garden Angels New York LLC

An employee was cleaning leaves with a backpack blower when he fell from a ladder, resulting in injuries to his head, neck, and back.

Cashless Tolling Constructors

An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.

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.

VILLAGER CONSTRUCTION, INC.

An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.