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

Varnell Consulting, Inc.

Bending, crawling, reaching, twisting-single episode · Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Varnell Consulting, Inc., 73553 Lodge Road, FREEPORT, OHIO 43973 on — Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments, affecting the upper arm(s).

An employee was watching others work. The employee reached toward a hose they were handling and suffered a torn right bicep ligament.

Hospitalized Upper arm(s) Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker

Virtua Medical Transport

An employee was transporting a patient to their residence. The employee bent down to grab a stretcher and felt a pop in their back. The employee sustained a herniation of their L4-L5 disc.

Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc.

On November 18, 2023, at approximately 8:30 a.m., an employee was loading products onto a delivery truck. The employee lost footing and sustained a torn hamstring and a hematoma with nerve damage to his foot/leg.

Titan West Inc

An employee was carrying a pipe when it slipped from their hand. As they reached to grab it while it was falling, they felt a muscle pull. The employee was hospitalized for an abdominal hernia.

Niemann Foods, Inc.

On August 21, 2023, an employee was reaching for product on the shelf in the cooler when their back gave out. The employee was hospitalized for an exacerbation of bulging disks.

Carvana LLC

An employee was vacuuming the inside of a used car when they sustained a lower back strain during the repetitive work, requiring hospitalization.

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.

Bio-Tech Consulting, LLC

An employee was walking through a swampy area carrying a machete. He tripped on a log, and the machete lacerated his right hand. He was hospitalized and required surgery.

U.S Department of the Interior- U.S Geological Survey

An employee had just delivered a package at a local FedEx office and was walking back to his vehicle in the parking lot. Another vehicle backed out of a parking spot and pinned the employee between their vehicle and another parked vehicle. The employee's lower right leg was crushed, and they were hospitalized.

Onpoint Industrial Services, LLC

An employee slipped on an iced-over metal grate. The employee fell to the ground and suffered a broken left hip.

ZymeFlow, Inc.

An employee was conducting a routine equipment check when a flash fire occurred and the employee sustained first-degree burns to their face, second-degree burns to the right side of their lower back and third-degree burns to the entirety of both legs.

United States Postal Service

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

Foundation Steel, LLC

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

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.

Abbott Electric Inc

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

American Electric Power Company

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.