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

JMG INC.

Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Intracranial injuries, unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at JMG INC., 14 Phillips Street, NORTH KINGSTOWN, RHODE ISLAND 02852 on — Intracranial injuries, unspecified, affecting the brain.

A garbage truck backed into a ladder an employee was working from. The employee fell and suffered head injuries.

Hospitalized Brain Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck

Bauducco Foods, Inc.

An employee was walking in an aisle when a forklift backed up over her foot, resulting in a skin injury that required surgery to repair.

S. H. Bell Company

An employee was looking into the bucket of a front-end loader to see how much material was in it. A skid steer backed into the employee, who then fell into the edge of the front loader's bucket and suffered internal bleeding in the abdominal area.

SHM Newport Shipyard, LLC

An employee was spotting for a forklift operation. The forklift backed over the employee, who suffered a complete amputation to one lower leg and a partial amputation to the other leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Oil City Iron Works, Inc.

An employee was cleaning his work area and preparing it to begin making air-set molds when a nearby forklift that was backing out from a load swung around and struck the employee. They sustained a lower left leg fracture.

Canyon Falls Farms

An employee was walking around a work area when he was struck by a forklift that was backing up, resulting in several broken bones in his foot.

Dynamic Builders Corp

An employee was on an extension ladder descending from a roof when the ladder collapsed and lowered. The employee fell approximately 20 feet to the ground, resulting in fractures to their ribs and left wrist.

Pre Con Construction, Inc.

The injured employee was acting as a spotter for another employee that was using a forklift to move crane plates. The injured employee went to walk on top of staged bracing poles that had been stacked. The top layer of bracing shifted when stepped on, causing the employee to lose balance and fall. During the fall, one of the bracing poles dislodged and landed on the employee s left leg, causing a compound fracture.

Lueck's Home Improvements, Inc.

An employee was working to remove an existing window from a customer's home. The employee was descending an extension ladder when they fell backward onto a concrete patio. The employee sustained head trauma and fractures to their shoulder, ribs, and a vertebra.

Sunset Home Specialist, LLC

An employee was painting the exterior of a house when they fell approximately 12 feet from a ladder. They landed on the ground and sustained a fractured right ankle.

Eddie Mack Construction., LLC

An employee climbed a ladder onto a roof, then stepped from new roof sheathing onto a tarped section of old roof, and fell to the ground. The employee suffered fractures to their pelvis, vertebrae, and the left wrist. The employee was hospitalized.

Gateway Healthcare, Inc.

An employee was talking to a child on the playground, when the child grabbed her hand to lead her away. The employee stepped, lost her balance, and fell over. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture of her lower left leg and required surgery.

Electric Boat Corporation

An employee was struck by a plasma cutter and suffered a broken left tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized.

O'REILLY AUTOMOTIVE STORES, INC.

An employee tripped on a rotor on the floor of a store, fell, and suffered a broken right thumb.

Johnson & Wales University

An employee was walking through a parking garage. She tripped over a curb and fell forward onto her right knee, then her left knee, both hands, and her face. She suffered an injury to the left knee that required surgery, as well as scrapes on the chin and both palms and soreness in the left wrist.

Brown University

An employee was using a hose to clear storm drains after a sewer backup. The employee fell backward and his head struck the curb, resulting in an Injury on the right side of his head, generalized bruising, and pain in his left ankle, right hip, left shoulder, and neck. The employee was hospitalized.