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

Palos Heights Rehabilitation, LLC

Fall on same level due to tripping on uneven surface · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Palos Heights Rehabilitation, LLC, 13259 Central Avenue, CRESTWOOD, ILLINOIS 60445 on — Fractures, affecting the hip(s).

And employee tripped on a cracked tile in a laundry room and fell, suffering a broken hip.

Hospitalized Hip(s) Floor irregularity

U.S. Postal Service

An employee was walking to a customer's door to deliver a package when they tripped on uneven pavement and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a hip fracture.

Nordstrom

An employee was leaving work for the day when he tripped over mulch and fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with a fractured hip.

4M Building Solutions

An employee was walking on the sidewalk toward the front entrance of the building to start her work shift. She tripped over uneven pavement and fell onto the concrete sidewalk. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip and a sprained left knee.

Spirit Aerosystems, Inc.

An employee was walking into work through a doorway when she tripped on the door sill and fell to the floor, fracturing her humerus.

Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity

An employee was leaving for lunch. The wheel of her knee scooter struck a divot in the floor which caused her to fall into a metal rack. The employee sustained a broken right shoulder.

Bienvivir Senior Health Services

An employee was walking around chairs and tables when she tripped on a chair leg, and fell resulting in a left knee fracture.

Easter Seals Central and Southeast Ohio

On September 10, 2025, an employee was walking up a wooden wheelchair ramp to a back door at a customer's home when she slipped/tripped on a rug and fell into a wall, hitting her shoulder and elbow. She then fell to the ground, resulting in a fractured hip that required hospitalization.

Res Care - Parkersburg Agency

An employee was getting up off a couch as a client was aggressive. The client kicked the employee, causing him to fall over the arm of the couch and land on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip.

Arc of St Charles

An employee was sitting in a chair when their legs were struck by a golf cart. The employee's left leg was broken and required surgery.

Maria Cerino, LLC

An employee was raking leaves at a client's house when they fell down an embankment. The employee landed on the ground and sustained a head/brain injury, a fractured shoulder, and a fractured pelvis.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.