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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Lornamead, Inc.

Fall from collapsing structure or equipment, unspecified · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Lornamead, Inc., 175 Cooper Avenue, TONAWANDA, NEW YORK 14150 on — Fractures, affecting the multiple body parts, n.e.c..

Employees were changing a HEPA filter on top of a pre-weigh booth. The injured employee was unable to reach the housing from a scissor left. He went onto the roof of the booth to unscrew the housing from the old filter. When the injured employee shifted his weight, the roof collapsed. He fell to the floor inside the booth and sustained fractures to his wrists and hips.

Hospitalized Multiple body parts, n.e.c. Roofs, n.e.c.

Lornamead, Inc.

An employee was helping another employee lift/move a tote bag when the acrylic nail on her thumb punctured her left eye resulting in damage to the cornea.

Lornamead, Inc

An employee was cleaning product out of a hose/pump. Moving parts caught the employee's finger, causing a fingertip amputation.

Lornamead, Inc.

A maintenance employee was cleaning a moving drive chain on a conveyor belt when the employee's hand was caught in a pinch point in the machinery, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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VON ALST OPERATING, LLC

An employee was on a step ladder applying glue to a panel when the ladder fell apart, causing the employee to fall to the floor. The employee sustained rib fractures.

AVI Foodsystems, Inc.

On December 5, 2023, an employee was loading product onto a freight elevator when the elevator fell with the employee inside. The employee sustained a right leg injury.

Sysco Central Alabama

On 11/28/2023, an employee was loading a cart with supplies to be delivered to a restaurant. He stepped onto a ramp to get into the back of a truck but the ramp fell to the ground, causing the employee to fall as well. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle.

S R Products

An employee was climbing a 16-foot fiberglass extension ladder to access a roof so they could take measurements for a roofing quote. The employee had partially ascended the ladder when the ladder broke in half. The employee's foot was caught in a ladder rung resulting in an ankle fracture that required surgery.

CHI Health Good Samaritan Hospital

An employee was replacing a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) valve in a ceiling while standing on a ladder. The ladder collapsed while the employee was descending, causing them to fall to the floor. The employee sustained a broken wrist.

Tri-Tech Laboratories

An employee was using an electric pallet jack to retrieve a chemical tote from a staging lane. He inserted the pallet jack under the tote and began to back up. After moving backward for approximately 15 feet, the employee tripped on a collapsible tote. As he fell, the pallet jack ran over his left foot. His ankle was lacerated and his foot was fractured.

John Paul Mitchell Systems Inc

An employee was installing network infrastructure at a client's distribution center. He was transporting a box measuring approximately 23 inches by 12 inches to a truck yard and walking along a narrow path adjacent to a trench that measured approximately 5.5 to 6 feet deep, 10 to 12 feet long, and 18 to 24 inches wide. Gravel on the path shifted beneath the employee's foot, causing him to lose balance and fall into the trench. He landed on his left side and struck a 4-inch PVC conduit pipe located at the bottom of the trench. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to his fourth, fifth, and sixth ribs on the left side.

Tri-Tech Labratories

An employee mixed sodium hydroxide pellets into a 55-gallon drum of hot water. A chemical reaction occurred and mixture splashed out of the drum, causing burns to the employee's face and neck. Personal protective equipment was not in place at the time.

Clean Control Corporation - Stephenville Plant

A line leader was crouched down observing the chain and sprocket on a carpet filling machine for maintenance or repair when another employee got his right index finger caught between the chain and sprocket. Skin and the fingernail were removed and the employee required surgical amputation of the fingertip to the first knuckle.

Garden Angels New York LLC

An employee was cleaning leaves with a backpack blower when he fell from a ladder, resulting in injuries to his head, neck, and back.

Cashless Tolling Constructors

An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.

NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

VILLAGER CONSTRUCTION, INC.

An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.