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

The Post-Journal

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Intracranial injuries, unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at The Post-Journal, 15 west second street, JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK 14701 on — Intracranial injuries, unspecified, affecting the brain.

An employee had punched out and was leaving work. He walked down stairs and missed the last step, fell, and his head hit a dumpster next to the steps. The employee sustained a head Injury.

Hospitalized Brain Stairs, steps-outdoors

Electrical Contractors Inc.

An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.

M1 Support Services

An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.

FEDEX Ground Package System, Inc.

An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.

SRM Concrete

An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.

U.S. Postal Service - Los Angeles P&DC

An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.

NEW YORK TIMES

An employee was walking down a flight of stairs when they fell down the stairs and suffered a fractured hip.

The New York Times

An employee was exiting the palletizer area and stepping out into an aisleway when his left foot was run over by an oncoming forklift. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left foot.

PublicSource

An employee was capturing videos at an outdoor event on July 13, 2024. They were struck in the leg by a motorcycle in a parking lot and sustained a fractured tibia.

News-Press & Gazette Company

On June 23, 2024, at 9:15 AM, an employee was walking down stairs when he missed the last stair and fell onto his left knee on the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a hematoma under his kneecap.

THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY

An employee was lowering a roller on the press machine when it slipped and rolled over his right thumb, lacerating the thumb. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

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.