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

Orkin

Stings and venomous bites · Other or unspecified allergic reactions

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Orkin, 4443 Roudebush Lane, BATAVIA, OHIO 45103 on — Other or unspecified allergic reactions , affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.

An employee received multiple yellow jacket stings after leaving the crawl space of a customer's home and suffered an allergic reaction.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Bees, hornets, wasps

Orkin

An employee was inspecting an attic when they stepped off a joist and fell through the ceiling to the floor. The employee sustained a fractured L2 vertebra.

Orkin

An employee was on a ladder placing steel wool into the exterior of a building when they fell approximately 8 feet from the ladder to the ground. The employee sustained a left ankle and tibia fracture.

Orkin

While doing a bait monitor check, an employee fell at a customer's house and struck his head on concrete. The employee sustained severe head injuries and seizures.

Orkin

An employee was performing pest control services at a customer's home when the employee was bitten on the hand by a snake or spider. The employee was hospitalized.

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7-11 Inc.

An employee was emptying and cleaning a trash container when he noticed a bite on his ribcage. The employee was hospitalized for a poisonous spider bite.

REI Electric

An employee was bitten by a copperhead snake while loading firewood.

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)

An employee was working an investigation. He pulled a trash can from a suspect s house and was bitten by fire ants. On the way back to the office the employee developed hives and went into anaphylactic shock. The employee was hospitalized.

MIKE PUSATERI EXCAVATING INC.

An employee was stung multiple times by bees while they were in a field. He suffered a severe allergic reaction and was hospitalized.

Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC.

An employee was picking up brush and debris for storm restorations when their left index finger was bitten by a copperhead snake.

ABC Home & Commercial Services

The injured employee was trimming a bush with a hedge trimmer. He reached over with his left hand to remove a branch. The blades of the trimmer partially amputated his left index finger.

Rentokil Terminix

An employee was performing pest control services at a residential home when he tripped and fell on the front porch steps. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured wrist, two fractured ribs, and a subdural hematoma.

Xceptional Wildlife Removal

An employee was on a 32-foot fiberglass ladder positioned on a porch roof, using a caulk gun to seal the fascia board around the gable of a house. He was about 16 feet up the ladder, which was not fully extended. The base of the ladder slid away from the house. The employee fell onto the porch roof, then to the ground below, a distance of about 10 feet. He suffered broken ribs, lacerations and facial abrasions, and a potential facial fracture.

McCall Pest & Wildlife - Orlando

An employee was going door-to-door selling pest control services during 80+ degree weather. The employee sustained heat stroke and collapsed.

Terminix

An employee was performing service on a customer's attic. They stepped off a walk board to retrieve a tool and misstepped onto the rafters, causing them to fall approximately 10 to 12 feet. The employee sustained a back injury.

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.

Foundation Steel, LLC

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

GXO Logistics

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

Abbott Electric Inc

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

American Electric Power Company

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.