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

Wendy's

Fall while sitting · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Wendy's, 1600 Georgesville Square Drive, COLUMBUS, OHIO 43228 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the multiple body parts, n.e.c..

An employee fell from a chair. The employee's right arm struck a safe mounted to the floor, and the employee suffered injuries to the right arm, lower back, and right hip.

Hospitalized Multiple body parts, n.e.c. Chairs

Wendy's

An employee was walking to get a product when they slipped and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured left wrist.

Wendy's

An employee was retrieving a pan of chili meat and hot water that had been cooking inside the microwave. The pan slipped out of her hands and hot chili spilled over her left arm and hand. She sustained first and second degree burns.

Wendy's

An employee was carrying a box of lettuce from the delivery truck to the walk-in cooler when the employee experienced pain in the right hip/nerve damage.

Wendy's

An employee tripped and fell while preparing fast food orders, injuring the left ankle.

Wendy's

An employee was in a walk-in cooler carrying a box of tomatoes when she tripped over a box on the floor and fractured her right ankle.

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Johnson Controls Fire Protection, LP

An employee was completing a sensor replacement on an air-cooled chiller unit and went to sit on a 5-gallon bucket during a rest break. He experienced sudden stiffness in his left knee, causing him to fall backward and strike his back on a pipe hanger. The employee sustained three broken vertebrae in their lower back.

Eastern Maine Medical Center

An employee was sitting at their computer when they fell off their chair, resulting in an S4 compression fracture in their spine.

Exchange Bank

An employee was sitting on a tall teller chair in a bank drive-through. She leaned forward in the chair when it rolled out from under her. As she fell, a metal footstool that was positioned under the teller station was knocked over. The employee fell on top of the footstool and suffered a puncture wound on the right side of her abdomen from one of the metal legs on the footstool.

CVS

An employee fell out of a chair, resulting in an injured ankle that required surgery to repair.

Lancaster General Health

A switchboard operator leaned back in her chair and the chair tipped over. She fell backward and struck her head on the floor, sustaining a subarachnoid bleed.

Spudrock LLC

An employee pulled out a bucket of hot oil from under the fryer. The employee then stood on the table to clean the back wall. He stepped down into the bucket of hot oil, resulting in third-degree burns to his left leg.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc.

An employee was walking through the retail store when they tripped over a display rack and fell. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their left shoulder, left elbow, and left wrist.

Bob Evans

An employee was walking toward the dish area when they tripped over a fan cord and fell on the ground. The employee sustained a hip injury.

Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

An employee was shocked while turning on a circuit breaker for a dishwasher that needed repair. The employee was hospitalized.

Southland Restaurant Services, LLC

An employee was on a roof servicing a refrigeration system. They were using a ladder to get off the roof when they fell, resulting in a shattered left heel that required hospitalization and surgery.

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.