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

Akron Children's Hospital

Overexertion in lowering-single episode · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Akron Children's Hospital, 8401 Market Street, BOARDMAN, OHIO 44512 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the hip(s).

While lowering an infant care station crib to the floor to be serviced, an employee fell to the floor with pain in his right hip. The employee sustained a hip injury.

Hospitalized Hip(s) Beds, mattresses

Simplot Grower Solutions

On March 2, 2023, an employee and co-workers were lifting and moving an 8-inch by 6-foot metal grate weighing no more than 150 pounds. As the team was lowering the grate, the employee felt a pop in their back, suffering a herniated disc.

UPS Cranbury Hub

An employee sat a package down and his knee buckled. The employee was hospitalized.

Ateeco Inc.

On or about October 21, 2019, an employee had just removed an empty pallet off a stack and slid it onto the floor when the employee felt a sharp pain in the lower back hip area. The employee had a back spasm and was hospitalized for a back sprain.

Ford Motor Company

An employee sustained a hernia while lowering a 5-gallon bucket of grease.

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE

On August 14, 2018, a UPS employee injured his lower back while placing a package on the floor of a package car.

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.

NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

SIH Memorial Hospital of Carbondale

An employee slipped on water in a hospital hallway, fell, and landed on his left hip. He suffered a contusion and fracture to the hip.

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

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.