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

H & H Field Services

Bites and stings, unspecified · Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at H & H Field Services, Barksdale AFB, BARKSDALE AFB, LOUISIANA 71110 on — Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.

An employee was tearing sheetrock out of a home when they were bitten by a spider, resulting in arm swelling.

Hospitalized Arm(s), unspecified Spiders, scorpions

EN Engineering LLC

On October 25, 2023, an employee suffered an insect bite/sting, which caused a swollen arm that required hospitalization.

Usxpress, Inc

An employee was walking around a truck at a weigh station when they suffered a spider bite on their left leg. The employee was hospitalized.

PHOENIX HOME CARE

An employee was in a client's yard when they were bitten by a bug. The employee was hospitalized for treatment.

MPS Egg Farms

An employee was walking through the chicken barn checking the chickens. They were bitten by a spider on the left shoulder and experienced a reaction to the spider bite.

Dynamic Builders Corp

An employee was on an extension ladder descending from a roof when the ladder collapsed and lowered. The employee fell approximately 20 feet to the ground, resulting in fractures to their ribs and left wrist.

Pre Con Construction, Inc.

The injured employee was acting as a spotter for another employee that was using a forklift to move crane plates. The injured employee went to walk on top of staged bracing poles that had been stacked. The top layer of bracing shifted when stepped on, causing the employee to lose balance and fall. During the fall, one of the bracing poles dislodged and landed on the employee s left leg, causing a compound fracture.

Lueck's Home Improvements, Inc.

An employee was working to remove an existing window from a customer's home. The employee was descending an extension ladder when they fell backward onto a concrete patio. The employee sustained head trauma and fractures to their shoulder, ribs, and a vertebra.

Sunset Home Specialist, LLC

An employee was painting the exterior of a house when they fell approximately 12 feet from a ladder. They landed on the ground and sustained a fractured right ankle.

Eddie Mack Construction., LLC

An employee climbed a ladder onto a roof, then stepped from new roof sheathing onto a tarped section of old roof, and fell to the ground. The employee suffered fractures to their pelvis, vertebrae, and the left wrist. The employee was hospitalized.

Kisatchie Midnight Express

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/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.

Jean Simpson Personnel Services, Inc.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

Calvary Industries Inc

An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.