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

LEGO Systems, Inc.

Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment less than 6 feet · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at LEGO Systems, Inc., 886 Niagara Falls Blvd, NORTH TONAWANDA, NEW YORK 14120 on — Fractures , affecting the Thigh(s).

An employee was standing on a single-step stool to arrange merchandise on top of a shelf when the stool slipped out from under them. The employee fell to the floor and suffered a broken left femur.

Hospitalized Thigh(s) Step ladders

B & I Contractors

An employee was descending a 10-foot A-frame ladder. The ladder came out from under the employee when he was about 5 to 6 feet above ground level. He fell, landed on the left side of his body, and sustained fractures to four ribs, his pelvis, and hip socket, and sustained injuries on the left side of his body. The employee was hospitalized.

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC

An employee was handling a small platform ladder with three steps and two wheels in the front. The employee was found on the floor underneath the ladder. She was hospitalized with multiple fractures to the sacrum.

Nailor Industries of TX Inc.

An employee was on a ladder four feet above the ground to install insulation. The ladder began to slide and the employee jumped to the shop floor, breaking his left tibia and fibula at the ankle. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Global Foundries, Inc.

An employee's leg went through a part of the floor that was missing a floor tile and he sustained a dislocated shoulder while catching himself.

Builders FirstSource - Window Showroom

On July 21, 2025, an employee was working from a 10-foot step ladder while installing a 3-by-5-foot glass window pane on the outside of a new home under construction. The window fell from the frame and the employee went to catch it when the ladder slipped. The employee fell 5 feet to the ground and landed on small pieces of concrete left over from the foundation pour. The employee was hospitalized with a dislocated elbow and fractured wrist that required surgery.

Hobby Lobby

An employee was descending a ladder when she missed a step and fell onto her left hip on the floor, injuring it.

Phantom Importing and Distributing, LLC

A contracted temporary employee was operating a golf cart to conduct a security and fire watch at a facility. While operating the golf cart, the employee struck a stairwell, resulting in a fractured leg that required hospitalization.

Hobby Lobby

An employee was on a ladder while retrieving stocked goods from a top shelf when she fell from the bottom rung of the ladder to the cement floor, resulting in a right hip injury that required hospitalization.

Oriental Trading Company, Inc.

An employee was examining a machine when a part moved up and amputated a fingertip on their left hand.

RKM Fireworks Company

An employee was setting up the electrical parts for a fireworks display. They were inserting an e-match when it generated friction with something else. A 3-inch firework shell ignited, injuring the employee's hand and head.

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.