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

COTTAGE GROVE, WISCONSIN—

Landmark Logistics, Inc.

Injury by other person-unintentional or intent unknown, n.e.c. · Fractures

At a glance

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Landmark Logistics, Inc., 1401 Landmark Drive, COTTAGE GROVE, WISCONSIN 53527 on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).

Final narrative

The injured employee approached another employee who was on the first step of the ladder on a truck. This startled the employee on the truck who then fell onto the injured employee and both employees fell to the ground. The injured employee sustained a fractured tibia and fibula.

Hospitalized Lower leg(s) Co-worker or work associate of injured or ill worker, unspecified

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