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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood

Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood, 2 US-15, ALLENWOOD, PENNSYLVANIA 17810 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the head and neck.

A corrections officer was unlocking cell doors in a housing unit when an inmate attacked him with a 14-inch homemade metal weapon. The officer was struck in the neck and face area, suffering wounds on the left side of the neck and the left cheek.

Hospitalized Head and neck Inmate or detainee in custody

Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood

An employee was putting away a pallet consisting of 16 cases of canned carrots in a warehouse. While unpacking the pallet of canned carrots, the employee lifted a case off the second to last row and a can of carrots from the bottom row exploded upward, striking the employee's face. The employee suffered facial lacerations, a left nasal bone fracture, a left orbital floor fracture, a soft tissue hernia in the maxillary sinus, left lateral rectus swelling, and loose teeth, requiring hospitalization.

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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.

United States Penitentiary, Lee

An employee was responding to a physical altercation between two inmates when they slipped and fell on the ground, landing on their left arm. The employee was hospitalized with a compound fracture to their left forearm.

CoreCivic Cimarron Correctional Facility

An employee was closing a door while holding the door handle behind him. The door closed on his finger resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Main Line Clinical Labs

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Ardent Mills

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

Zimmerman & Herr

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

McAneny Brothers, Inc.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

Metz Culinary Management LLC

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.