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

CVS

Fall while sitting · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at CVS, 1 CVS Drive, WOONSOCKET, RHODE ISLAND 02895 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the ankle(s).

An employee fell out of a chair, resulting in an injured ankle that required surgery to repair.

Hospitalized Ankle(s) Chairs

CVS

An employee was walking to their car after work. They tripped over a concrete parking stop and fell in the parking lot. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion.

CVS

An employee was descending a staircase when they fell down the staircase from the top step and struck their head on the edge of a stair, requiring hospitalization for a head injury.

CVS

An employee was walking through a sales aisle when a customer stopped her to ask a question. She turned around and her head struck a structural column, resulting in a bruised forehead and two chipped front teeth.

CVS

An employee was inventorying products on the sales floor. The employee missed a step on a two-step stool while coming down and fell to the ground, sustaining a leg injury requiring hospitalization.

CVS

An employee was working while contractors were painting in the store and the employee suffered an asthma attack due to the paint. The employee was hospitalized.

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Johnson Controls Fire Protection, LP

An employee was completing a sensor replacement on an air-cooled chiller unit and went to sit on a 5-gallon bucket during a rest break. He experienced sudden stiffness in his left knee, causing him to fall backward and strike his back on a pipe hanger. The employee sustained three broken vertebrae in their lower back.

Eastern Maine Medical Center

An employee was sitting at their computer when they fell off their chair, resulting in an S4 compression fracture in their spine.

Exchange Bank

An employee was sitting on a tall teller chair in a bank drive-through. She leaned forward in the chair when it rolled out from under her. As she fell, a metal footstool that was positioned under the teller station was knocked over. The employee fell on top of the footstool and suffered a puncture wound on the right side of her abdomen from one of the metal legs on the footstool.

Lancaster General Health

A switchboard operator leaned back in her chair and the chair tipped over. She fell backward and struck her head on the floor, sustaining a subarachnoid bleed.

Warren General Hospital

The employee had clocked out for the day and was leaving the facility. As the employee was going down an exit ramp to the parking lot, their wheelchair struck a bump and the foot plate became jammed. The employee was ejected from the wheelchair onto the concrete/pavement and sustained a hip fracture.

Walgreens

An employee was working at a register when she tripped on a scanner cord and fell, resulting in hospitalization for a hip fracture.

CVS Albany LLC

An employee was loading cardboard into a cardboard bailer to be compressed. The machine began to operate with the door open, and the employee's left hand was fractured.

CVS

An employee was walking to their car after work. They tripped over a concrete parking stop and fell in the parking lot. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion.

Hallmark Marketing, Inc.

An employee was putting a box onto a cart when a handle on the box broke and the cart began to roll away from her. She lost her balance, fell with the box still in her hands, and broke her left hip. She was hospitalized.

Walgreens Co.

An employee was using a photo cutting trimmer board to trim photos and amputated their left thumb tip without bone loss.

Gateway Healthcare, Inc.

An employee was talking to a child on the playground, when the child grabbed her hand to lead her away. The employee stepped, lost her balance, and fell over. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture of her lower left leg and required surgery.

Electric Boat Corporation

An employee was struck by a plasma cutter and suffered a broken left tibia and fibula. The employee was hospitalized.

O'REILLY AUTOMOTIVE STORES, INC.

An employee tripped on a rotor on the floor of a store, fell, and suffered a broken right thumb.

Johnson & Wales University

An employee was walking through a parking garage. She tripped over a curb and fell forward onto her right knee, then her left knee, both hands, and her face. She suffered an injury to the left knee that required surgery, as well as scrapes on the chin and both palms and soreness in the left wrist.

Brown University

An employee was using a hose to clear storm drains after a sewer backup. The employee fell backward and his head struck the curb, resulting in an Injury on the right side of his head, generalized bruising, and pain in his left ankle, right hip, left shoulder, and neck. The employee was hospitalized.