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

Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc.

Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode · Other or unspecified allergic reactions

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc., 3200 MacCorkle Avenue, CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA 25304 on — Other or unspecified allergic reactions , affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.

An employee has a known allergy to chemically made cinnamon. The employee smelled cinnamon on a coworker and had a severe reaction. The employee was hospitalized.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Chemicals and chemical products, n.e.c.

Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc.

An employee was walking to a patient room with a meal tray when their knee gave out and they fell to the ground, fracturing their left femur.

Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc.

An employee slipped and fell to the floor of the operating room. The employee was hospitalized for surgery to repair a fractured ankle.

Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc.

An employee was pushing a housekeeping cart when it collided with a dietary cart, causing the employee to fall and strike her head on the wall. The employee was hospitalized for a left hip injury and a concussion.

Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc.

An employee was walking behind a machine when they tripped over the cord and fell to the floor, resulting in a femur fracture.

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Veterans Administration Medical Center

An employee was passing through a building when she suffered an allergic reaction to a cinnamon air freshener. The employee began to feel dizzy and ill, ultimately becoming unresponsive. The employee was hospitalized.

LA Ship

An employee wearing a blasting hood was preparing to blast inside a tank. The line that supplies the hood with breathing air was plugged into an argon line. The employee breathed the argon gas and fell. The employee was hospitalized for argon poisoning.

Phillips 66 Company

An employee was preparing a pump for maintenance. When the employee removed a cover, chemicals were released into the air. The employee was exposed to hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan and was hospitalized.

County Materials Corporation

An employee was exposed to carbon monoxide that was leaking from a kiln. The employee lost consciousness and was hospitalized.

JML Landscaping

An employee was inside a trailer with a running lawn mower and sustained carbon monoxide poisoning.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

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.

SIH Memorial Hospital of Carbondale

An employee slipped on water in a hospital hallway, fell, and landed on his left hip. He suffered a contusion and fracture to the hip.

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left 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.

Caperton Furniture Works, LLC

An employee tripped over a concrete curb stop in a parking lot. The employee fell to the ground, landing on their left hip and breaking it.

Certainteed Gypsum West Virginia, Inc

An employee was conducting routine maintenance on a mixer. New lid pins had been installed, and the employee was rotating by hand to ensure they had been installed correctly. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the lid and top of a pin. The momentum from the mixer continued, causing a crushing injury to the finger. The employee underwent a medical amputation from the top knuckle to the tip of the finger.

Owens Corning

An employee was climbing down a ladder when it slipped. The employee fell, suffering a broken scapula and broken ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

Applied Integrated Services, LLC

An employee was climbing down a 15-foot multipurpose ladder. The employee fell about 8 feet, landing on the concrete floor and the ladder itself. The employee suffered several injuries, all on the right side: broken ribs, a broken sternum, a broken temporal bone, broken shoulder, multiple fractures to the cheekbone, and a brain bleed.

Fedex Freight Inc.

An employee was rolling up the landing gear on his trailer when the handle began to unwind and struck his face, fracturing his jaw. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.