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

Sprouts Farmers Market

Ingestion of harmful substance · Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Sprouts Farmers Market, 6821 W. 135th, OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS 66223 on — Poisoning, toxic, noxious, or allergenic effect, unspecified, affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.

An employee accidentally ate a bar of industrial soap and was hospitalized.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Soap products

Sprouts Farmers Market

An employee was descending a ladder when he slipped and fell with his weight landing on his leg, resulting in a broken leg.

Sprouts Farmers Market

An employee was working at a bailer. She bent down to pick something up. As she straightened, her head struck the bailer door. She suffered a pinched nerve and a bulging disk in the lower back and was hospitalized.

Sprouts Farmers Market

An employee slipped on a wet, newly cleaned floor, fell, and sustained three fractures to her pelvis.

Sprouts Farmers Market

An employee was stacking soda cases when she bumped a fire extinguisher, which fell onto her foot. The employee suffered a toe amputation.

Sprouts Farmers Market

An employee was leaving for his break. While walking through the parking lot to get to his vehicle, a vehicle entered the parking lot, forcing the employee to stop abruptly, which caused him to slip on a patch of ice and fall. The employee's ankle was broken.

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GridTech Power, LLC

While waiting to assist with delivering a transformer from a flatbed truck, an employee went to get a drink of water. He returned to the work area and set his water bottle down. He later went to take a drink and picked up a different bottle that contained denatured alcohol. The employee was hospitalized due to poisoning.

Cleveland Cliffs Monessen Coke Plant

An employee was carrying a bottle of door seal solution containing sodium silicate. The employee bumped their arm, causing them to ingest the solution. The employee suffered from wheezing, nausea, and breathing difficulties.

D Holdings

An employee was siphoning water from a tank and ingested chemicals that were in the siphon hose. He was hospitalized.

Wilson Machine & Welding, Inc. of Decatur

An employee was siphoning degreaser from a 55-gallon drum. Some of the caustic solution entered his mouth and throat, causing burns. He was hospitalized.

Kitchen Fresh Foods Inc

An employee was cleaning a depositor machine to setup for a new product run. His right index finger was caught by moving parts in the depositor machine and the fingertip was partially amputated without bone loss.

Dietz & Watson Inc.

An employee was under a label machine, working to remove a jammed label. The machine partially amputated her left index finger at the first knuckle.

Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company LLC

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack. While standing beside the equipment, the pallet jack lurched forward, pinning the employee's leg against racking. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right ankle.

Walmart, Inc.

An employee was on a top stock cart, moving items on shelving on the sales floor. The employee fell and suffered a broken left ankle. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Walmart, Inc.

An employee was using a walkie stacker when the merchandise on it shifted and fell onto him. He suffered a head injury and a broken left leg that required surgery. He was hospitalized.

Omya Inc.

An employee was working to remove a product blockage from a piece of equipment. The employee was struck by a metal bar near the deck of the pin mixer equipment and sustained blunt force trauma to the torso.

John Deere Coffeyville Works

An employee was moving a rack onto a lower conveyor in the south heat treat area when their finger got caught between the part tray and the rollers, resulting in a fingertip fracture and amputation.

Haven Steel Products Inc

An employee was climbing a ladder to get on top of the breakroom. The ladder slipped, causing him to fall to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to his upper back, left foot, and ankle.

Vestas-American Wind Tech

Two employees were removing a circuit breaker. The injured employee was using wrenches in the removal process. One of the wrenches contacted an adjacent door, resulting in an arc flash. The employee suffered burns to their neck, face, and ear, as well as momentary vision loss due to the flash.

Alliance Ag and Grain LLC

An employee bent over to pick up a rubber mat from the ground. When he grabbed the corner of the mat, a rattlesnake hidden under it bit his left middle finger near the first knuckle. He was hospitalized.