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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Thermo Fisher Scientific, 7554 Schantz Road, ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 18106 on — Fractures, affecting the face, unspecified.

An employee tripped on the edge of a pallet in the production room and fell to the floor resulting in in-patient hospitalization for facial fractures.

Hospitalized Face, unspecified Floor, n.e.c.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

An employee was mopping a floor when they stepped forward onto a section they just mopped and slipped, falling to the ground. The employee suffered a shattered kneecap.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

The employee was crouched down to fix tape on the floor when they lost their balance and fell backward. The employee suffered a hyperextended left ankle that required surgery.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

On March 23, 2022, an employee was operating a brake press. The employee's finger was caught between the rear gauge and the bottom die, and the fingertip was amputated.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

At about 9:30 a.m. on March 31, 2021, an employee was backing an order picker through a narrow aisle, carrying empty pallets. The top few pallets struck a box, then struck the uprights of the high rack, and then struck the employee's left leg and pinned it against the order picker. The employee suffered severe contusions.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

An employee was moving a box from a pallet to a shelf when she experienced severe pain in her lower back, requiring hospitalization.

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Walmart Stores 4686

An employee was going to the breakroom when they tripped over a chair and fell, resulting in a hip fracture.

Walgreens Co.

An employee arrived at work and was walking into the store through the parking lot. The employee tripped over a curb and fell to the ground, sustaining a femur fracture.

TJX Companies / TMaxx

An employee tripped over a box and fell to the floor, fracturing their right arm.

HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital

An employee was preparing for a CT scan when she tripped over a loose strap and fell to the floor, fracturing her hip.

GXO Logistics

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

PVH, Corp.

A temporary employee was punched in the face by another temporary employee. He suffered a laceration to the eye.

Ace Hardware International LLC

An employee was backing up a powered industrial vehicle. Her left hand was caught between the vehicle and a rack, and the wrist was broken.

Agave Wire Ltd

An employee was operating an extruder and performing a spool swap over from the right spindle to the left spindle. After rewiring the new spool, the employee's clothing got caught in the turning shaft when the left spindle started back up. The employee's left arm was pulled into the machine, resulting in a fractured humerus and lacerations to her triceps. She was hospitalized and required surgery.

M&M Quality Solutions

An employee was resetting a warehouse racking system utilizing an order picker. They fell approximately 5 feet from the order picker to the concrete floor and sustained fractured ribs.

Main Line Clinical Labs

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Ardent Mills

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

Zimmerman & Herr

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

McAneny Brothers, Inc.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

Metz Culinary Management LLC

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.