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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

DICK'S Sporting Goods

Fall to lower level, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at DICK'S Sporting Goods, 4304 Easton Gateway Drive, COLUMBUS, OHIO 43219 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the multiple body parts, n.e.c..

An employee was using a ladder to stock footwear merchandise onto shelves. The ladder backets failed, causing the employee to fall 6 feet and sustain back and leg injuries.

Hospitalized Multiple body parts, n.e.c. Ladders, unspecified

DICK'S Sporting Goods

An employee was using a ladder to retrieve a set of golf clubs from a shelf. While descending the ladder, the golf clubs slipped and struck him in the head, causing him to fall to the floor. The employee sustained a right hip and femur injury.

DICK'S Sporting Goods

A sales associate was painting a section of the wall from a 6-foot, straight, fiberglass ladder. As he descended the ladder, he missed the last rung and fell to the floor on his right side. The worker sustained a pelvic fracture.

DICK'S Sporting Goods

An employee was standing on a 6-foot ladder reaching for a plastic tote of clothing when she lost her footing and fell 5 feet to the floor. The employee sustained a torn left anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).

Dick's Sporting Goods

An employee was working on bike repairs when their hand struck the disk brake, resulting in an amputation to the thumb.

Dick's Sporting Goods

An employee was building a bicycle when its disc brakes amputated the tip of the employee's left index finger.

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Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC

An employee was using a shepherd's hook to help position a jib crane. The hook slipped and the employee fell into an adjacent structure, suffering three broken ribs and a punctured lung.

BLU-D Construction, LLC

An employee was taking measurements of a parapet cap when they fell to the ground sustaining fractures to a shoulder and arm.

Carpenter Contractors of America Inc

An employee was cleaning a two-story house. They fell approximately 12 feet from the roof to the floor and sustained fractures to both wrists.

Azteca Milling, Lp

An employee was using a water hose to clean the outside of a wastewater drain system when he fell into an area of the drain that was not covered. Hot water and chemicals caused first, second, and third-degree burns all over the employee's body. The employee was hospitalized.

Heartland Tank LLC

An employee was cutting down a steel above-ground storage tank. He was on the roof of the tank when he fell 20 feet to the ground, resulting in a broken elbow and sprained leg. The employee was wearing a harness that was tied off at the time.

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An employee was walking to their work station. As the floor transitioned from concrete to wood, the employee tripped and fell to the floor, landing on their right side. The employee was hospitalized and underwent surgery for a fractured hip.

Academy Sports and Outdoors

An employee was shelving merchandise in the store's receiving area. They missed a step while coming down from a stock-picking ladder cart and fell approximately 30 inches to the ground. The employee sustained a brain bleed.

Dick's Sporting Goods, Inc.

An employee was walking on the second level of the store's backstock area when they fell through a grate that was opened to move stock from one level to the next, landing on the floor. The employee fractured their right heel and strained their back.

DICKS SPORTING GOODS INC

An employee was stocking duffle bags on shelves using a 4-foot step ladder when they lost their balance and fell to the floor. They struck their head on shelving or the floor, resulting in a concussion.

Academy Sports and Outdoors

An employee was moving merchandise using a forklift. The employee's leg became caught between the forklift and a metal beam; the leg and foot were broken.

United States Postal Service

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

Foundation Steel, LLC

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

GXO Logistics

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

Abbott Electric Inc

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

American Electric Power Company

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.