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

Hospital Central Services, Inc.

Overexertion and bodily reaction, unspecified · Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Hospital Central Services, Inc., 2171 28th St SW, ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 18103 on — Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments, affecting the abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders.

An employee tore a muscle in his abdomen while unloading soiled linen carts.

Hospitalized Abdomen, except internal location of diseases or disorders Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker

Texas Christian University

An employee was participating in volleyball warm-up practice. The employee was serving volleyballs overhead when he suffered a hernia and was hospitalized.

Gordon Food Service Store

On July 27, 2023, an employee was making a delivery when he tried to prevent a box from falling off the dolly. The employee heard a snap in his right knee. He fell to the ground, striking his head on the pavement. On July 28, 2023, while at home, the employee's right leg gave out and caused the employee to fall, tearing the quadriceps in both legs. The employee was hospitalized.

United States Department of the Army (DA)

During an aircraft egress drill, a firefighter suffered chest pain and shortness of breath. He was taken to the hospital for a heart attack.

Alliance Laundry Systems LLC

An employee was changing a copper ring on a press welder. The machine was actuated, and the employee's left thumb was pinched between its ring and its nipple. The thumb tip was amputated between the nail and the first knuckle.

Hospital Central Services Cooperative, Inc

An employee was unjamming a lift when their right leg was caught between a pneumatic ram and the frame assembly of the lift. The employee's leg was fractured.

Crown Health Care Laundry Services, Inc.

An employee was delivering laundry at a vendor's loading dock. He went inside the delivery trailer to load empty bins and tripped on the trailer floor and fell inside the trailer. The surface inside the trailer was approximately 2 inches higher than the loading dock surface. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip.

Alliance Laundry Systems LLC

An employee was mounting a forklift when they slipped off the forklift resulting in strained muscles in the abdominal area. The employee had ice on their shoe at the time.

Pellerin Milnor Corporation

An employee was using a pry bar to adjust a dryer basket in a fixture. The employee's left ring finger was caught between the fixture and the basket, and the fingertip was amputated.

Main Line Clinical Labs

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Ardent Mills

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

Zimmerman & Herr

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

McAneny Brothers, Inc.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

Metz Culinary Management LLC

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.