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

Swissport USA Inc.

Nonclassifiable · Crushing injuries

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Swissport USA Inc., LaGuardia Airport-Terminal A, EAST ELMHURST, NEW YORK 11371 on — Crushing injuries, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

An employee's hand was caught between a belt loader and offloading machines, resulting in a crushed middle finger.

Hospitalized Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Airport utility vehicle-powered

Swissport USA, Inc.

An employee was working to refuel a truck. While handling the fuel hose(s), she experienced pain in her stomach. After completing the task, the employee drove back to the pad and the movement aggravated her abdominal pain. The employee was hospitalized with an abdominal sprain/strain.

SWISSPORT USA INC

An employee was connecting a fuel hose to a plane using a rolling aluminum staircase when a weld broke on the staircase and it collapsed into two pieces. The employee fell 4-5 feet and landed on the broken staircase. The employee sustained knee lacerations, internal bleeding, and two fractured ribs.

Swissport USA, Inc.

An airport employee was in a baggage room, loading bags onto a cart. Another baggage cart drove into the room and struck the employee, who suffered fractures to both legs and a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

Swissport USA, Inc.

An employee fractured his left ring finger while disconnecting a baggage cart.

Swissport USA, Inc.

An employee was building a horse stall when an unlocked roof panel swung open catching the employee's left ring finger in the hinge and amputating the fingertip.

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Target Corporation

An employee was unloading a truck when he experienced pain. He was hospitalized with a hernia.

Westlund Excavating LLC

An employee was cutting pipe when they sustained a laceration to the face. The employee was hospitalized.

Hader-Seitz, Inc.

An employee suffered two fingertip amputations while working at a plant.

Rivian Automotive, LLC

On September 25, 2023, an employee was working in the body department installing doors, hoods, and tailgates. The employee finished their shift and was hospitalized later that evening for a back injury.

Mid-City Electric Co

An employee was operating a scissor lift and fractured their right ankle.

POI Aviation Incorporated

An employee was operating a tug that had been re-tagged due to faulty brakes. As the employee approached the designated parking area, he slowed the tug using the clutch and then exited the tug. He went to stop the tug from colliding with a concrete wall when his right ankle became caught between the tug and a parking stall barrier. He sustained a fractured ankle and was hospitalized.

American Airlines

An employee had just arrived to work and was driving a tug to the gatehouse. The tug ran over chocks while exiting the inbound area, causing the employee to fall to the ground. He was hospitalized with four fractured ribs.

Quantum Aviation Services LLC

An employee was unloading shipping containers from an aircraft when they suffered heat exhaustion and were hospitalized.

Ground Services International

An employee was manually pulling a container from the aft cargo hold of a wide-body jetliner. Their right little finger got pinned between the container and the edge of the cargo door. The employee's finger was partially amputated.

Worldwide Flight Services

An employee was offloading an airplane flight. After driving a transporter car to place a pallet on a static rack, he got off the transporter to apply the lock and secure the pallet on the rack. The pallet began to roll off the rack and pinned the employee against the transporter. He suffered a broken right leg.

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.