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

Tradesmen Services Inc

Jump to lower level, unspecified · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Tradesmen Services Inc, Chase Hall, LEWISTON, MAINE 04240 on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.

An employee was on a step ladder, putting 3-inch pipe into hangers. One of the hangers broke free and the employee jumped off the ladder. He landed on the floor and suffered a broken leg.

Hospitalized Leg(s), unspecified Step ladders

JB Hunt Transport

An employee was exiting his semi-truck when he noticed a puddle of water outside the driver's side door. To avoid getting his feet wet, he stepped between the cab of the truck and the trailer to get to the passenger side. He dismounted the truck from the passenger side and landed in an awkward position, breaking his right leg between the hip and the knee.

Time Warner Cable

Employee was hospitalized when he jumped off of a ladder, injuring his ankle and tibia.

Capstone Logistics LLC

An employee was loading a trailer of automotive parts when the load caught the top of the trailer. He jumped up to clear a wedged item. When the item came down, the load collapsed onto the employee, resulting in a fractured pelvis.

PrideStaff, Inc.

A temporary employee was checking pallets on a pallet jack when the pallet jack moved forward. His left foot was caught between a pallet and the forks of the pallet jack and fractured.

FPR-II LLC

On June 25, 2025, at approximately 12:00 p.m., an employee working on a garbage truck route began to experience cramping. Around 3:30 p.m., the employee's legs cramped as he got off the truck, and he was hospitalized due to heat stress and dehydration.

PrideStaff, Inc.

A temporary employee was cleaning plastic welding irons and cutting them using a table saw. The saw blade contacted his left middle and ring fingers, resulting in a partial amputation of his left ring finger and an avulsion to his left middle finger.

Del Monte

An employee was peeling a watermelon when the knife slipped from his hand. He grabbed it and suffered a laceration on his right index fingertip, resulting in an amputation.

HB Fleming, Inc.

A crew was installing drilled micropiles alongside an outdoor covered deck foundation. The injured employee was working the front of the drill when a loose section of casing dropped onto the tip of a rig wrench and pulled the wrench down to an embedded casing. The employee's left little finger was caught between the rig wrench and the embedded casing and was amputated above the top knuckle.

GERRITY INDUSTRIES

Two employees were working to change a tire on a mobile slasher saw. The slasher weighs around 2,000 pounds and is towed. Employee 2 was lifting the saw while the injured employee was placing a block of wood under the frame for support. The slasher then lowered onto the block and the injured employee's left thumb was crushed between the slasher frame and the wood block, leading to an amputation at the first knuckle.

O&P Glass

An employee was using a metal shear when it amputated the tip of his right index finger.

Cives Steel Company New England

An employee was using a crane to move a 44-foot, 3,343-pound I-beam. As the beam was moving west, it straightened out (north to south), beginning to swing south toward the northwest corner of a building. The crane then sent the beam southward, directly toward the corner of the building. The beam caught the tips of the employee's left index, middle, and ring fingers against the building. The last joints of the middle and ring fingers were amputated, and the last joint of the index finger was partially crushed.

Longroad Energy

An employee was standing on a step stool, removing the nuts and bolts from the frame of a solar panel that was being replaced. The employee's cheek made contact with a connector with damaged insulation. The employee was shocked, briefly lost consciousness, and fell to the ground, suffering an injury to the left shoulder.