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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

YRC

Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at YRC, 445 Hollywood Avenue, SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY 07080 on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.

An employee was entering his workplace building. While walking up the steps, he tripped on the stairs and fell onto his side on the landing. The employee was hospitalized with a leg fracture.

Hospitalized Leg(s), unspecified Stairs, steps, unspecified

U.S. Postal Service

An employee was delivering mail when they tripped on a curb and fell to the ground, resulting in a kneecap injury.

Kettering Health

An employee was leaving work when they tripped over a curb in the parking lot and fell into a wall, resulting in a fractured left humerus.

RIVERSIDE MEDICAL

A nurse was visiting the home of a patient for requested treatment. She tripped on her gown while going up the steps to the property, falling and fracturing her left femur.

Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center

An employee tripped on a step while entering a house. The employee suffered a broken right femur and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Publix Supermarket

An employee was walking up an escalator that was out of service when they tripped on a step, fell, and suffered a closed fracture to the right femur as well as a dislocated right patella.

A&S Services Group

An employee fell while exiting a trailer. The employee landed on their left side on the pavement, suffering multiple broken ribs on the left side. The employee was hospitalized.

Southeastern Freight Lines

An employee was hooking up a set of 28-foot trailers, attaching a converter dolly to the lead trailer's pintle hook. He backed up the lead trailer and parked it a foot from the converter dolly, then lifted the converter dolly and rolled it to the lead trailer to set it onto the hook. The converter dolly kicked up, and the employee's left hand was caught between it and the trailer. He suffered a severe laceration to the palm between the ring finger and middle finger.

Texas TransEastern

An employee was cleaning the windshield of his truck. When he stepped down from the truck, he lost balance and reached to catch himself using the side mirror. The impact fractured his left wrist. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

HOGAN TRANSPORT

An employee was standing on the DOT bumper on the back of a standard 53-foot trailer. The employee lost his footing and his grip on the handle bar, and fell approximately 42 inches to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left hip/femur.

ARMELLINI EXPRESS LINES

A driver was making a delivery. As he was climbing onto his trailer to get boxes, the strap he was using to pull himself up broke. He fell from the back of the trailer to the ground, landing on his right leg and breaking his femur.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.