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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

FEDEX GROUND PACKAGE SYSTEMS, INC.

Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at FEDEX GROUND PACKAGE SYSTEMS, INC., 5 COMMERCE DRIVE, BARRINGTON, NEW JERSEY 08007 on — Fractures, affecting the toes(s), toenail(s).

A 105-pound cylindrical package was pushed onto a roller line, but rolled off it and fell onto an employee's right foot, breaking the big toe.

Hospitalized Toes(s), toenail(s) Packages, parcels

Fedex Ground Package Systems, Inc.

An employee was loading packages averaging 15 to 20 pounds onto the back of a van that could not be flushed into the van line (dock) because the van's bumper size. While the employee was tossing a package into the van from the van line (dock), he lost his balance and fell about 28 inches to the ground. He broke his right leg and was hospitalized.

Fedex Ground Package Systems, Inc.

An employee was walking in the yard when another employee driving a tractor trailer backed up over his foot fracturing it.

FedEx Ground Package Systems, Inc.

An employee was working on a motor house belt system when her arm got caught between the belt and the metal beam of the conveyor system.

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Star Pipe Products LTD

An employee was using a crane. The hook slipped and a fitting fell onto a finger on the employee's left hand causing a fracture and laceration.

KP Building Products, Inc.

An employee was transporting an 800-pound die on a cart from the tool room. The employee was pulling the cart when it struck a metal plate on the floor. This caused the cart to tip forward and the die to slide off the cart. The die struck the employee's left foot and their second toe was amputated.

BJ'S WHOLESALE CLUB, INC.

An employee was using a forklift to load pallets of product on a trailer. He exited the forklift to adjust a pallet by hand. The pallet fell on him, resulting in an injury to the left leg.

International Steel and Counterweights LLC

An employee was lifting a 500-pound steel counterweight off a pallet using a magnetic hold jib crane. The counterweight detached from the crane and the employee sustained a left foot/toe fracture that required surgery.

Seneca Mechanical, LLC

An employee was using a pipe wrench to turn a 42-foot-long steel pipe on jack stands to weld the bottom portion. The pipe fell off the stands, striking the injured employee on his left shin. The employee sustained a left leg fracture at the shin area as well as a tibia fracture that required surgery.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Kisatchie Midnight Express

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

J-Mar Enterprises

An employee was on the ground working to close a trailer door. The door was caught by the wind and blew the employee backward. He landed on his back and sustained four fractured ribs, requiring hospitalization.

Federal Express Corporation

An employee had been loading packages into a vehicle. While exiting the vehicle, he tripped and fell, fracturing both ankles.

Texas Enterprises, Inc.

An employee was working from the elevated bucket of an excavator when they fell between two tanks and landed on the ground. The employee sustained a fractured leg.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.