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

Fed Ex Freight Inc.

Fall, slip, trip, unspecified · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Fed Ex Freight Inc., 25 Demarst Drive, WAYNE, NEW JERSEY 07470 on — Fractures, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee lost their balance while closing a trailer door. The employee put his left hand down to catch himself when the door came down on his left hand, resulting in a broken middle finger and ring finger.

Hospitalized Fingertip(s) Trailers

Fed Ex Freight, Inc.

An employee was stepping down from a trailer when he fell to the ground and landed on his right side. The employee suffered a broken leg and hip.

Fed Ex Freight, Inc.

An employee was hooking a dolly to a trailer. The dolly connection pinched the employee's left little fingertip, causing its amputation.

Fed Ex Freight Inc

An employee was loading pallets onto a trailer. After loading one, he turned and tripped on another pallet inside the trailer and fell resulting in a dislocated right knee and patellar tendon rupture.

Fed-ex Freight, Inc

An employee was closing a semi-truck trailer door when the cable to the door broke; the trailer door slammed onto his foot.

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Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.

An employee was walking to their truck to look for a lid. When they stepped between the truck and a dock plate, they sustained a knee injury that required surgery.

Family Lawn Care, LLC

An employee was standing on plant bed timbers, using a powered hand trimmer to trim the shrubs in the plant bed. The timber gave way, breaking into several pieces. The employee lost balance and fell with the trimmer in his hand. He suffered a severe laceration to the right wrist and hand.

U.S. Postal Service

A mail carrier slipped on ice and sustained a strain that required hospitalization.

J R Simplot Co, Don Plant

An employee was loading phosphoric acid onto a rail car and preparing to secure the rail car for transport. While repositioning the loadout spout to secure it back to the drip pan holster on the dock, the spout contacted the handrail of the rail car, causing the employee to lose balance. The employee stepped back and their right foot entered the opening for the rail car, causing him to twist/pivot on his left leg. The employee's lower left leg was fractured.

Gravity Inc.

On November 14, 2023, an employee was receiving a delivery from a truck when some of the merchandise fell from the truck s lift and struck him. He then fell to the ground and his head struck the sidewalk, resulting in an injury that required hospitalization.

Estes Express Lines

An employee was inside a trailer, loading freight, when their leg was caught in shrink wrap. The employee fell, resulting in a fracture to their right thigh bone, which required surgery.

XPO

An employee was lowering a safe stack beam inside a trailer. The beam released, causing the employee to fall back and strike his head on the trailer floor. He was hospitalized with a brain bleed and a concussion.

Midwest Motor Express, Inc.

An employee fell from a dock to ground level (less than 4 feet) and broke their tibia/knee.

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.

FirstFleet, Inc.

On August 20, 2025, an employee was exiting a commercial tractor from the driver's side door when they fell to the ground, resulting in a fractured left ankle.

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.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.