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

BSX, LLC

Demolition or blasting explosion · Cuts and abrasions or bruises

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at BSX, LLC, Avon Park Air Force Range, AVON PARK, FLORIDA 33825 on — Cuts and abrasions or bruises, affecting the multiple body parts, n.e.c..

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An employee was cutting a piece of aluminum using a torch. Unexploded ammunition inside the piece exploded, creating shrapnel that struck the employee. The employee suffered a chest contusion and a laceration up the left arm.

Hospitalized Multiple body parts, n.e.c. Ammunition

Anderson Perforating Services LLC

An employee was helping to download shaped charges. During the process, a charge exploded directly over the employee's left hand. The employee suffered lacerations and burns to his left hand. He was hospitalized, and his left little finger was surgically amputated.

North America Explosive Services

An employee placed an explosive in the economizer hole and another employee then set the blast. When the explosive blast occurred, the injured employee sustained amputations to fingers on the right hand.

Wilderness Earthworks LLC

An employee was preparing a boulder for demolition. The employee drilled the boulder in two places using a jackhammer and loaded the first hole with a charge. The charge was a dud so the employee flushed out the hole with pressurized water. The employee put gel into the second hole to expand and hold the charge. The second charge was also a dud. The employee flushed the second hole with pressurized water, releasing both charges. The employee drilled another hole and an unknown charge released, causing debris to go into the employee's face and arms. The employee was hospitalized.

Meylan Special Services

An employee was holding a pole with an explosive charge on the end of it, which was being used to de-slag a boiler. The explosive charge ignited and caused lacerations to the employee's left hand which resulted in amputation of the hand.

Precision Blasting, Inc.

A contractor employee sustained a possible amputation of the left leg below the knee during explosive blasting.

Daniels Health Ohio - Medical Waste

On July 24, 2025, an employee was unloading stacks of empty, 96-gallon medical waste containers. A stack of 10 containers, which weighed approximately 460 pounds, fell on him. The employee was hospitalized with multiple head, face, and neck injuries and a back injury requiring surgery.

Chemical Waste Management, Inc.

An employee was standing between a truck and a roll-off container that was being offloaded. The container came down on their left ankle. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration and fracture to the ankle.

NLR, Inc.

An employee was loading a gaylord into a truck when the gaylord ripped, causing him to lose his balance and fall from the liftgate to the pavement. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to his left wrist and femur.

Spring Grove Resource Recovery,Inc.

An employee was cleaning the back of a tractor trailer. The tractor trailer pulled away from the dock and the employee fell from the dock lock to the ground below, breaking their right femur.

Heritage-Crystal Clean LLC

An employee was preparing a load for the electric pallet jack he was operating. He was walking backward when he tripped and fell. The pallet jack struck his left leg, and he was hospitalized with a broken left fibula.

DRIFTWOOD NURSERY & LANDSCAPING, INC

An employee was helping a coworker transport a tall palm tree with a mini skid steer. The employee was severely shocked by a high-voltage electrical wire above the ground.

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

An employee was retrieving a Christmas tree from a shelf using a ladder. He missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained injury to his head and wrist.

Envelope Seal Insulation, Inc

An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida

An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.

Air-flo/Erwood Heating & Air Conditioning

An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.