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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Oaks Integrated Care

Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Oaks Integrated Care, 1461 Perkins Lane, EDGEWATER PARK, NEW JERSEY 08010 on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.

An employee was caring for patients. A patient struck the employee, who fell to the ground and suffered a broken left leg.

Hospitalized Leg(s), unspecified Patient

Family Dollar

A store employee was pushed by a shoplifter into the frame of the entrance door to the store. The employee's head struck the doorframe resulting in head injuries and contusions on her hand and arm. The employee was hospitalized.

Cleveland Clinic Akron General

A patient kicked a police officer in the leg, rupturing their patellar tendon. The police officer required hospitalization and surgery.

Dollar General Store 9012

A cashier was hit in the face by a customer. The employee sustained injuries to his head and face.

Circles of Care, Inc.

An employee was making patient rounds at the hospital and stopped to talk with the charge nurse in front of the nurse's station. A patient reached over the nurse's station, grabbed a metal three-hole paper punch from over the desk, and proceeded to attack the employee with it. The employee sustained lacerations to the head and face, a fractured forearm, and a fractured little finger.

UHS Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare

A teacher's assistant was attending to a student in the quiet room when they were pushed by another student. The employee fell to the floor and sustained a left hip fracture.

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.

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.