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

Marquette University

Stings and venomous bites · Other or unspecified allergic reactions

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Marquette University, 1404 W Clybourn St., MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN 53233 on — Other or unspecified allergic reactions , affecting the bODY SYSTEMS.

An employee was stung by a bee and suffered an allergic reaction.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Bees, hornets, wasps

Marquette University

An employee slipped/tripped in a parking lot and fell to the pavement, suffering a broken and dislocated elbow.

Marquette University

An employee turned on a vacuum cleaner to vacuum a second floor carpet and received an electrical shock in his foot that traveled up his leg.

Marquette University

An employee was struck in the crosswalk of a city street by a motor vehicle, requiring hospitalization for a torso injury.

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7-11 Inc.

An employee was emptying and cleaning a trash container when he noticed a bite on his ribcage. The employee was hospitalized for a poisonous spider bite.

REI Electric

An employee was bitten by a copperhead snake while loading firewood.

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)

An employee was working an investigation. He pulled a trash can from a suspect s house and was bitten by fire ants. On the way back to the office the employee developed hives and went into anaphylactic shock. The employee was hospitalized.

MIKE PUSATERI EXCAVATING INC.

An employee was stung multiple times by bees while they were in a field. He suffered a severe allergic reaction and was hospitalized.

Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC.

An employee was picking up brush and debris for storm restorations when their left index finger was bitten by a copperhead snake.

Washington University School of Medicine

An employee was removing boxes of filters from a skid when he tripped on a manual pallet jack. The employee fell and struck his back on the base of the pallet jack, resulting in hospitalization with fractured ribs.

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.

Georgetown University

An employee was working on an exhaust fan on the roof when he tripped on a wire and fell to the ground. The employee sustained scrapes on his elbow, and a fractured right knee with a torn ACL. The employee was hospitalized.

Elizabethtown College

An employee was replacing the back bracket on a deep fryer when her screwdriver slipped, causing her to fall forward into hot oil. She suffered burns on both arms up to the elbows (including the hands and fingers), as well as on the face and neck. She was hospitalized.

RG Professional Carpenter, Inc.

The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

General Thermodynamics, Inc.

An employee was using a vertical band saw to cut a thick piece of rubber material. While being cut, the material shifted, causing the employee s right hand to contact the moving blade. The employee's thumb was amputated below the knuckle. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

Sargento Foods Inc

A production sanitation employee was pre-rinsing an incline conveyor and noticed cheese stuck between the belt idler. The employee went to remove the cheese and their glove got caught and pulled their left forearm into the conveyor. The employee's arm was fractured. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

Asher Enterprises, Inc.

An employee was on a ladder, taking measurements for a new gutter installation. The ladder slipped out from under him and both he and the ladder fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with seven broken ribs and a broken clavicle.

Consolidated Electrical Distributors Inc.

An employee was unloading a truck for a delivery job. While moving boxes in the truck, the employee tripped over a pallet and fell out of the truck to the ground, resulting in four broken ribs.