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

The First and Wesley United Methodist Church of West Haven, Incorporated

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at The First and Wesley United Methodist Church of West Haven, Incorporated, 89 Center Street, WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT 06516 on — Fractures (except skull fractures) and concussions , affecting the multiple body parts, n.e.c..

An employee was touching up the paint on a stairway and preparing to put no-slip strips on the steps. While descending the stairs, the employee missed a step and fell down two steps, breaking her right wrist and hitting the back of her head on the floor, which resulted in a concussion.

Hospitalized Multiple body parts, n.e.c. Stairs, steps-indoors

Electrical Contractors Inc.

An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.

M1 Support Services

An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.

FEDEX Ground Package System, Inc.

An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.

SRM Concrete

An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.

U.S. Postal Service - Los Angeles P&DC

An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.

Minister, Elders & Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the City of New York

A television crew was filming in our sanctuary and asked an employee to adjust the temperature in the space. As the employee turned around after adjusting the temperature, he slipped on the lid of an equipment case and fell. The employee twisted when he fell on the floor and injured his right knee below the patella. The employee sustained swelling, a severe hematoma, and pulmonary embolisms requiring hospitalization and surgery.

St. Stanislaus Kostka Church

An employee was preparing meals in a kitchen when an object struck their head, resulting in a laceration to the head and a swollen right eye. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery for a brain injury.

St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church

An employee was working from a ladder, changing banners on a wall. The ladder slid backward and gave out and the employee fell, landing on the on the flagstone floor about 13 to 15 feet below. He was hospitalized with a broken elbow and wrist, and he required surgery.

Saint Bernadette Catholic Church

On January 7, 2025, an employee was vacuuming between pews when they tripped over the kneeler in a pew and fell to the floor. The employee sustained a fractured right femur.

Heavy Weight Inc

An employee was checking on a machine outside of the building and removed a cover to clean out a blocked area. His hand was caught by a rotary valve in a dust collection machine. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Duro Bag

An employee was working to clean a glue roller with a scraper tool. The tool and the employee's left thumb were pinched between two rollers, resulting in a partial amputation.

United Refrigeration Inc

An employee was re-arranging boxes of pipe insulation on a pallet. One of the boxes fell from the pallet and knocked over an upright empty cylinder. The cylinder fell and crushed the tip of the employee's right toe. The employee's toe required surgical amputation.

Michels Power, Inc.

An employee was securing the claw of a grapple truck to the truck bed. His left little finger was caught between the tie down strap and the rub rail of the truck, resulting in partial amputation of the finger.

Parker-Hannifin Corporation

An employee was cutting extruded aluminum framing material using a horizontal band saw. She went to grab a rag in the machine when the rag contacted the blade and pulled her hand in toward the blade, resulting in a partial amputation of the right index finger.