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

Havertys Furniture

Slip, trip, stumble while stepping between levels · Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Havertys Furniture, 930 Old Monrovia Road, HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA 35806 on — Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified, affecting the Hip joint(s).

An employee was moving a couch down a set of stairs when he missed a step, resulting in pain in his left hip.

Hospitalized Hip joint(s) Stairs, steps

Havertys Furniture

An employee ascended a ladder to retrieve a comforter from a shelf. While descending the ladder, the employee missed a step and fell to the floor, resulting in a possible hip fracture.

Havertys Furniture

An employee was working on a piece of equipment and used his legs and chest for support. The employee experienced chest pain and breathing issues and was hospitalized.

Havertys Furniture

Three employees were unloading a reclining sofa from the back of a truck to the ground. One of them was trying to guide the process with a four-wheel hand truck. The hand truck rolled on uneven ground, and the employee's hand was caught between the bottom bracket of the sofa and the hand truck, resulting in the amputation of the end of the thumb.

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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.

Federal Express Corporation

An employee had been loading packages into a vehicle. While exiting the vehicle, he tripped and fell, fracturing both ankles.

The Broadmoor Hotel, Inc.

An employee was exiting a train. The employee's foot was caught, and the employee fell, suffering a broken left arm.

Metropolis Technologies

An employee was dropping customers off with a shuttle. He stepped out of the shuttle and his foot entered a pothole, causing him to twist his ankle and then fall to the ground. The employee sustained multiple dislocations to the ankle requiring surgery.

Charter Communications

An employee was approximately 5 feet up on a ladder while drilling a hole for cable installation. A wasp attacked him. As he was coming down the ladder, he landed flat on his feet on the ground, and his right leg was twisted. The employee sustained a fractured tibia.

Rooms to Go Clearance Center

On August 30, 2025, an employee was moving product using a hand truck/dolly. He observed an electric pallet jack obstructing his path and went to relocate it. The electric pallet jack ran over his right ankle, dislocating it.

IKEA Distribution Services, Inc

An employee was driving a forklift when the forklift and his left hand struck a racking system, resulting in a cut and fracture that required surgery.

Warehouse Home Furnishings, Inc.

An employee was aligning a cart on a stock picker. The cart dropped onto the top of his right index fingertip, causing an amputation to the fingertip.

Raymour & Flanigan Furniture and Mattress Store

An employee fell 48 inches to the parking lot ground after exiting a door. The employee sustained head trauma, a head laceration, and broken wrists.

Metro Mattress Corp.

An employee climbed a ladder to hang a sign, lost his balance, and fell to the floor. The employee sustained back and leg injuries.

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.