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

EAGLE ROOFING LLC

Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c. · Cuts, lacerations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at EAGLE ROOFING LLC, 5 Orchard Street, LE MARS, IOWA 51031 on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the eye(s).

An employee was on a roof assisting with uploading materials and was also giving signals to a forklift operator. Insulation slid on the forklift's forks and struck the employee who then fell off the roof 12 feet to the ground. The employee suffered a back injury and a cut above his left eye.

Hospitalized Eye(s) Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

InterCon Construction, Inc.

A crew was pulling a 4-inch plastic gas pipe off a reel and straightening it for installation. The injured employee stepped up on the trailer to cut the last band holding the pipe in the coil on the reel. As he turned to step off the trailer, the end of the pipe rotated and sprung out of the cage surrounding the coil, striking the employee on the side of the head and knocking him off of the trailer into the roadway. The employee suffered head trauma that required hospitalization.

RAVA Construction, LLC

An employee and a co-worker were performing a pick inside a clear well. They rigged the skid pan that was full of broken concrete. When lifting, the load began to swing toward a wall. The employee tried to stop the skid pan from swinging and was struck by the pan, resulting in fractures to their left hip and wrist.

Stein, LLC

The employee had just completed refueling a lattice crane that was breaking up material and was winding the fuel hose back into the fuel truck when he was struck by the catwalk/stairs of the crane. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration to his backside, possible internal bleeding, and a broken hip.

7 Site & Utility, LLC

An employee was fusing 10-inch black rubber utility pipes together using a pipe fusion machine and could not get the pipes to set correctly. The employee used a nylon strap attached to an excavator to lift one side of a pipe off a steel plate. As his hand was between two pipes, the pipes came back together, partially amputating two of his fingers.

Sterling Steel Company, LLC

An employee was lifting four bags of a lime blend weighing approximately 10,000 pounds using a crane. The load swung and pinned the employee against a structural I-beam, resulting in fractures to the hip and pelvis.

ABC Supply Company

An employee was delivering materials. He was doing his pre-delivery inspection on the roof of the jobsite (a warehouse) when he fell through a plexiglass skylight. He landed on his feet on the concrete floor 14 feet below. The employee sustained fractures to his spine, left ulnar/radius, and right heel. The employee required surgery.

UPSON COMPANY

An employee was standing on a multi-purpose ladder installing head flashing over a window. Their feet were approximately 6 feet off the ground and three rungs from the top. The employee lost their grip on the drill they were using and the ladder tipped over. The employee fell from the ladder to the ground, resulting in a fractured left wrist, bruised chest, and lacerations to their face and lip.

Garcia Homes Solutions LLC

An employee fell through a hole in the ceiling and suffered injuries to his side and right arm. When he fell, a piece of concrete fell with him and struck his arm. He was hospitalized.

Aquarius Best Construction Inc.

An employee was laying glue on the corner of a three-story commercial flat roof to apply new thermoplastic polyolefin roofing material. He lost his balance and fell at least 35 feet to the concrete ground below. The employee sustained fractures.

SGK Enterprises, Inc.

An employee was installing roof tiles. The employee fell about 6 feet and suffered a back injury.

U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

On September 29, 2025, a rural mail carrier was delivering parcels to a business when she tripped on a parking stop block in front of the business. She fell to the ground and sustained fractures to her left hip and pelvis. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

An employee was walking around chairs when they slipped/tripped and fell, resulting in hospitalization with a fractured hip.

Iowa Veterans Home

An employee was walking to get on a recreation bus when she slipped on ice and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured right hip.

United States Postal Service

An employee was walking to the back door of the post office when they slipped on the icy ground due to freezing rain and fell. The employee sustained a torn rotator cuff in their right shoulder and a fractured right hip.

U.S. Postal Service

An employee was on top of an APC to access a radio on a shelf when they slipped and fell to the ground. They sustained three fractured ribs, a fractured right scapula and right clavicle, a knot on top of their head, and a laceration to their left leg.