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

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

Contact with hot objects or substances · Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLORIDA 32830 on — Heat (thermal) burns, unspecified, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.

An employee was working at a restaurant emptying a container of used cooking oil. His right hand slipped into the container and the hot cooking oil caused burns to the hand that required hospitalization.

Hospitalized Hand(s), unspecified Fats, oils, cooking greases

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

An employee was speaking with guests at a theme park. She tripped over a guest's cooler while turning, fell to the concrete walkway, and suffered a chipped right kneecap.

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

An employee was working on a flat roof to turn off water valves for a leak repair. As the employee walked over an expansion joint, he tripped and fell onto the roof surface, resulting in a head laceration and neck fracture.

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An employee was walking to her register when she tripped on another employee's walker. She fell and suffered a broken femur.

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

While unpacking glass, an employee suffered a hand laceration from broken glass and was hospitalized.

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

A Disney employee tripped over a stone in the hardscape while walking to her car. She suffered a broken elbow and arm and was hospitalized, needing surgery.

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OQ Chemicals

An employee connected a steam line to a hose to clean equipment when the fitting broke loose. They were struck by steam in the left inner thigh, resulting in burns that required hospitalization.

Husbe Zoaq

An employee was straining hot water from a pot of rice when the water splashed onto them, resulting in burns to their chest, arms, shoulder, and back.

The Cumberland Rest Inc. dba Trinity Terrace

An employee was making tea when she noticed tea grinds were collecting on the side and water was no longer dripping through the funnel. The employee was checking the funnel when boiling water and tea grinds spilled onto the left side of her body. The employee sustained burns to her neck, back, and arm.

Mueller & Wilson Inc

An employee had turned off the ball valve on a waterpipe system and was removing the plug when the coupling system attached to the strainer came apart. Hot water sprayed on his arm and back, resulting in first- and second-degree burns that required surgery.

Oklahoma Steel & Wire Co., LLC

An employee was using a shovel to remove waste vermiculite from molten zinc. The metal had been placed in a bin and partially hardened. The employee broke through the partially hardened metal; still-molten metal flowed to the employee's steel-toed right boot and entered through the cloth boot tongue. The employee suffered a third-degree burn to the right foot and was hospitalized.

Universal City Development Partners, Ltd.

An employee was in a paint booth to change filters underneath the booth. She took a step when her right foot fell into an opening in the floor, resulting in a right ankle injury that required hospitalization and surgery.

Walt Disney World Resort

On October 11, 2025, an employee was walking through a parking lot when they tripped on a pavement joint and fell, resulting in a fractured right ankle and a left knee injury.

Walt Disney World Resort

An employee was unloading merchandise from a pallet when she tripped over the pallet and fell forward. Her head and face struck the floor of the stockroom, resulting in multiple head and face injuries that required hospitalization.

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts US

An employee tripped on an incline/ramp at the door to a building, fell, and suffered a broken left arm.

Shepherd of the Hills Development, LLC.

At the end of a shift on the downhill coaster, an employee was waiting for an empty cart to arrive at the bottom so he could ride it back up the hill. The cart arrived with its seat belt safety lock engaged. The employee boarded the top of the cart and began working to disengage the lock by reaching under the cart. His right hand and two fingers got caught between the rear wheel of the cart and the coaster rail. His ring and little fingers were crushed and lacerated, resulting in surgery and partial amputation of the ring finger.

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.