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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

The GEO Group, Inc.

Hitting, kicking, beating, shoving · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at The GEO Group, Inc., 102 Industrial Pkwy, COLUMBIANA, ALABAMA 35051 on — Fractures, affecting the ankle(s).

Five employees were searching an inmate's property when they were assaulted by the inmate. One employee was hospitalized with a broken ankle, which required surgery.

Hospitalized Ankle(s) Inmate or detainee in custody

The Geo Group, Inc.

An employee was walking by a doorway when the door closed on their left middle finger, crushing it.

The GEO Group, Inc.

An employee tripped on a doorstop while walking through a door. The employee suffered a hairline fracture to the left side of their pelvis.

The Geo Group, Inc.

An employee was collecting food trays and handing out clean laundry when his hand got caught in the gate door frame by the locking mechanism as it swung shut. This resulted in fractures to the right ring, middle, and little fingers requiring surgery.

THE GEO GROUP INC

A nurse was performing work duties when an inmate struck her with a rock, resulting in multiple facial injuries.

The GEO Group, Inc.

An employee was in training for defensive tactics. As she attempted to perform a hip toss move, she felt a tearing sensation in her lower back. She was hospitalized with a lower back injury.

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Family Dollar

A store employee was pushed by a shoplifter into the frame of the entrance door to the store. The employee's head struck the doorframe resulting in head injuries and contusions on her hand and arm. The employee was hospitalized.

Cleveland Clinic Akron General

A patient kicked a police officer in the leg, rupturing their patellar tendon. The police officer required hospitalization and surgery.

Dollar General Store 9012

A cashier was hit in the face by a customer. The employee sustained injuries to his head and face.

Circles of Care, Inc.

An employee was making patient rounds at the hospital and stopped to talk with the charge nurse in front of the nurse's station. A patient reached over the nurse's station, grabbed a metal three-hole paper punch from over the desk, and proceeded to attack the employee with it. The employee sustained lacerations to the head and face, a fractured forearm, and a fractured little finger.

UHS Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare

A teacher's assistant was attending to a student in the quiet room when they were pushed by another student. The employee fell to the floor and sustained a left hip fracture.

KVC Behavioral Health

The injured employee was completing safety crisis management training. During a practice hold, she went from standing to kneeling, misstepped, and fell with her trainer to the ground. The trainer landed on the injured employee's leg, fracturing her right fibula. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Keystone Center

An employee was moving boxes down stairs. He dislocated his left knee on the last step.

Salisbury Behavioral Health Inc.

An employee was walking backwards while assisting a client when she fell to the ground, fracturing her hip.

Molina Health Care

An employee broke his leg while involved in an intervention with a high school age student and was hospitalized.

Sysco Gulf Coast, LLC

An employee was traveling down the maintenance aisle of a warehouse on a single-pallet front rider jack. The jack malfunctioned, causing the brakes to apply; the employee fell forward onto the concrete warehouse floor. The employee suffered an injury to the left leg and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Norflex, Inc.

An employee was operating a metal roller machine to roll a small piece of metal. The employee's right index finger became caught between the metal and the machine, and the fingertip was amputated.

Ampler Pizza II LLC

An employee was shot in the leg with a pistol during an altercation with two people who had entered the store without permission.

Birdsong Corporation

An employee was directing a truck driver to a dump site when the truck's peanut trailer slipped off the kingpin. As the trailer fell, a ladder attached to it lacerated the employee's ear. The employee was hospitalized.

Pilgrims

An employee was unloading a forklift from a trailer to the ground. The employee was climbing down the ladder of the trailer when their foot slipped through one of the rungs, causing them to fall backward onto the forklift forks. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs.