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

Knight Armament Co.

Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Knight Armament Co., 701 Columbia Blvd., TITUSVILLE, FLORIDA 32780 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the knee(s).

An employee was walking from her car to the facility when she tripped on the concrete sidewalk curb in the parking lot and fell. The employee sustained injuries to the right knee.

Hospitalized Knee(s) Curbs

U.S. Postal Service

An employee was delivering mail when they tripped on a curb and fell to the ground, resulting in a kneecap injury.

Kettering Health

An employee was leaving work when they tripped over a curb in the parking lot and fell into a wall, resulting in a fractured left humerus.

RIVERSIDE MEDICAL

A nurse was visiting the home of a patient for requested treatment. She tripped on her gown while going up the steps to the property, falling and fracturing her left femur.

Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center

An employee tripped on a step while entering a house. The employee suffered a broken right femur and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Publix Supermarket

An employee was walking up an escalator that was out of service when they tripped on a step, fell, and suffered a closed fracture to the right femur as well as a dislocated right patella.

Hornady Manufacturing

An employee was riding as a passenger in a golf cart on a concrete pathway. The cart hit a bump and the employee fell out, suffering a head injury.

Diamondback Firearms

An employee was clearing a firearm that had a jam in it. To disassemble the firearm, the employee was required to pull the trigger to remove the slide. During this process, the firearm discharged and the employee suffered a bullet wound to his left hand.

White River Energetics LLC

An employee was manually adding soda ash into a tank of heated water while on a mobile ladder. The fluid in the tank began to boil over the sides. The employee went to exit the mobile ladder to avoid the boiling liquid that was beginning to contact their lower legs. The employee lost balance and fell approximately 4 feet to the concrete below. The employee was hospitalized and had surgery for a dislocated left knee and thermal burns to the lower portion of both legs.

Sig Sauer, Inc

An employee was changing the bit on a horizontal gun drill. The wrench slipped while tightening a collet and the employee's left little finger was fractured and partially amputated.

DRIFTWOOD NURSERY & LANDSCAPING, INC

An employee was helping a coworker transport a tall palm tree with a mini skid steer. The employee was severely shocked by a high-voltage electrical wire above the ground.

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

An employee was retrieving a Christmas tree from a shelf using a ladder. He missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained injury to his head and wrist.

Envelope Seal Insulation, Inc

An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida

An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.

Air-flo/Erwood Heating & Air Conditioning

An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.