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

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Lowe's Home Centers, LLC, 901 Frank Sottile Boulevard, KINGSTON, NEW YORK 12401 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified.

An employee was reaching up to turn on a fan in the outdoor register hut. She fell off a bucket and landed on the floor, resulting in a back injury that required hospitalization.

Hospitalized Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified Buckets, baskets, pails

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC

An employee was stocking product in the lawn and garden area of a store when they tripped over a storage rack that was approximately knee height. The employee fell to the ground and suffered a fractured hip that required hospitalization and surgery.

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC

An employee was handling a small platform ladder with three steps and two wheels in the front. The employee was found on the floor underneath the ladder. She was hospitalized with multiple fractures to the sacrum.

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC

An employee was cutting wood on a table saw when his thumb contacted the saw blade. The employee's thumb was partially amputated.

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC

An employee was working in the mulch loading area when they tripped over a pallet of product and broke an ankle.

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC

An employee was pulling a cart when it struck his ankle. He fell to the floor and was hospitalized with a fractured hip.

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Electrical Contractors Inc.

An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.

M1 Support Services

An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.

FEDEX Ground Package System, Inc.

An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.

SRM Concrete

An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.

U.S. Postal Service - Los Angeles P&DC

An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.

Hamilton Parker Company, LLC.

The injured employee was walking through the warehouse. Another associate was driving a forklift with a pallet of large format tile (slabs) when the slabs began to tip. The injured employee ran over to stop the slabs from falling, but the slabs fell on his lower left leg/foot. The employee sustained fractures in his lower leg and foot. He was hospitalized and required surgery.

Menard, Inc.

An employee was doing a cutback on a piece of lumber using a chop saw. The saw hit a knot, the piece of lumber buckled, then kicked back and broke the kickback guard. The board was then pulled back into the blade, which lacerated the employee's left index and middle fingers.

Lowe's Home Improvement LLC

On October 16, 2025, an employee was entering a parking lot after completing their work shift when they were struck by a vehicle being operated by a customer. The employee fell backward from the impact and the back of their head struck the asphalt. The employee was hospitalized due to brain bleed and a skull fracture.

Menard, Inc.

An employee was descending a rolling ladder when she fell from the last step and her head struck the floor, resulting in a fractured pelvis.

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC dba Lowe's of Mount Vernon

On September 24, 2025, an employee was using a sledgehammer to straighten the forks on a forklift when a piece of metal broke off the fork and became lodged in the employee's leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Garden Angels New York LLC

An employee was cleaning leaves with a backpack blower when he fell from a ladder, resulting in injuries to his head, neck, and back.

Cashless Tolling Constructors

An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.

NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

VILLAGER CONSTRUCTION, INC.

An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.