Olive Garden USA

An employee was pushing tables together to seat a party of 20 when he felt a sharp pain and experienced difficulty breathing. The employee was hospitalized for a collapsed lung.

An employee was cleaning the wall behind the grill and fryer. While standing on the fryer, she slipped and her left foot entered the hot fryer grease. The employee sustained second-and third-degree burns to the foot.

An employee dropped a basket into a pasta cooker and reached to retrieve it. The employee's hand was burned by boiling water.

An employee slipped on black ice in the parking lot and fell, suffering a broken left arm.

An employee was walking away from a table in the restaurant when she stumbled and fell, hitting her hip on the floor. She suffered a fractured hip and shoulder injury, requiring hospitalization.

An employee was adjusting a blade on a padder machine. As he manually turned a roller, his hand contacted the blade, amputating his right thumb tip.

An employee was cleaning a slicer when the tip of their right index finger was amputated, requiring hospitalization.

An employee was tying a feed bag when his hand slipped and struck the side of the feed hopper resulting in a laceration to the left wrist. The employee was hospitalized.

At approximately 9:45 AM, a maintenance technician was assisting in removing a feed roller from a coating tank. The bolts were removed and a supporting chain was in place. The technician was using a prybar to unseat the roller shaft when the prybar slipped, causing him to lunge forward and strike the right side of his face against a valve stem. The technician sustained a fracture and laceration to the cheek, and required surgery for an injury related to his right eye. He was hospitalized.

An employee was cleaning and performing maintenance on a vertical panel saw when the employee impacted the saw blade. They sustained a finger fracture and laceration.

An employee was climbing a ladder when he fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with injuries to his right knee and leg and required surgery.

An employee was performing regular job duties, including bussing tables. The employee was punched in the face by a patron of the restaurant. The employee was hospitalized with loss of consciousness, brain swelling/bleeding, and multiple avulsions of teeth.

An employee was putting food items on shelves in a freezer. The employee lost their footing while moving around in the freezer and fell on the floor. The employee sustained a fractured hip.

A person wandered through a restaurant into the kitchen area. While being escorted to the front doors by two employees, the person pulled out a sharp object and stabbed one of the employees in the lower abdomen. The employee was hospitalized.

An employee was standing on a milk crate to clean the grill. The milk crate slipped and the employee's right hand fell onto the hot grill, resulting in burns to the right arm and hand.

An employee was cleaning leaves with a backpack blower when he fell from a ladder, resulting in injuries to his head, neck, and back.

An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

An employee's right middle finger was caught in a nip point. The employee suffered an amputation to the middle finger at the first knuckle.

An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.