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

Schnucks

Multiple types of overexertion involving outside sources · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Schnucks, 150 Waterloo Commons Dr., WATERLOO, ILLINOIS 62298 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified.

An employee suffered a lower back injury while stocking shelves in a grocery department.

Hospitalized Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified Containers-nonpressurized, unspecified

Schnucks

An employee tripped on the edge of a fatigue mat and fell resulting in a fractured shoulder.

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Woodman's Food Market, Inc.

On November 9, 2023, an employee lifted a 70-pound package of paper bags, put it in a cart, and then pushed the cart to the front of the store by the cash registers. The employee sustained a collapsed lung.

Empress Ambulance Services

An employee was providing medical treatment to injured persons involved in a motor vehicle accident. The employee was walking up and down a low-grade embankment carrying injured persons on transport equipment such as backboards. The employee sustained chest pain, and a possible cardiac related event with an elevated heart rate and elevated blood pressure.

Dollar General

An employee was moving merchandise in boxes, rolling containers, and totes, from a truck to store shelves when they sustained back and neck injuries.

Winstead Plumbing Co Inc

An employee was using a shovel to dig a hole for a pipe when he suffered a broken vertebra. He was hospitalized.

Green Demolition Contractors, Inc.

On June 16, 2023, an employee was elevated in a scissor lift and was removing a pipe from a structure when they began experiencing back pain. The employee sustained a ruptured abdominal aneurysm from lifting/carrying/pulling pipe.

Kitchen Fresh Foods Inc

An employee was cleaning a depositor machine to setup for a new product run. His right index finger was caught by moving parts in the depositor machine and the fingertip was partially amputated without bone loss.

Dietz & Watson Inc.

An employee was under a label machine, working to remove a jammed label. The machine partially amputated her left index finger at the first knuckle.

Heartland Coca-Cola Bottling Company LLC

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack. While standing beside the equipment, the pallet jack lurched forward, pinning the employee's leg against racking. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right ankle.

Walmart, Inc.

An employee was on a top stock cart, moving items on shelving on the sales floor. The employee fell and suffered a broken left ankle. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Walmart, Inc.

An employee was using a walkie stacker when the merchandise on it shifted and fell onto him. He suffered a head injury and a broken left leg that required surgery. He was hospitalized.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.