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

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc.

Kneeling, kneeling down-single episode · Strains

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Inc., 62 Flanders-Bartley Rd., FLANDERS, NEW JERSEY 07836 on — Strains, affecting the lumbar region.

On March 8, 2022, an employee was kneeling on a mat to apply a label to a medical instrument and take pictures during a product inspection. The employee suffered a lower back strain and was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Lumbar region Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker

Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.

An employee was walking down a staircase. He fell down the last 10-12 steps of the flight, suffering three rib fractures, a left lung puncture, and blood accumulation in the left lung. He was hospitalized.

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Titan Wheel Corporation of Illinois

An employee was on their knees pulling wires in a machining center when their knee began to swell with fluid, resulting in hospitalization due to sepsis.

Smithfield Foods

An employee suffered a dislocated kneecap while squatting to inspect a pallet.

AVIATION TECHNICAL SERVICES

An employee was inspecting seats inside an aircraft that was parked inside a hanger. He bent or knelt and felt a pop in his lower back followed by pain. He pulled a muscle and was eventually hospitalized to treat the pain.

Amsino Medical INC.

On August 15, 2025, an employee was in a small room right before the exit. The door in the little room was locked. The employee climbed over a wall and hopped down to the other side, falling and resulting in a twisted right ankle. The employee was hospitalized.

Nurse Assist LLC

On August 14, 2025, an employee was assembling cables using a molding machine. When the machine was engaged, the mold came down and caught the employee's left hand, amputating three fingers.

Footprint Medical

On August 8, 2025, an employee was operating a table-top injection molding machine. He refilled the barrel of the machine with resin and began a pack procedure in which the plunger of the machine moved into the barrel to compress plastic pellets into the mix. The plunger caught and amputated his fingertip.

SteriPack USA (Limited) LLC

An employee was entering the manufacturing area when their finger became caught between a door and the door frame, resulting in an amputated finger.

Medline Industries

An employee was working to move a pallet jack that had gotten stuck between the dock and the trailer. When the equipment was loosened, it struck the employee, throwing them backward onto the ground. The employee sustained fractured ribs and injury to their spleen and liver.

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.