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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC., 2619 Rolac Road, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 32207 on — Fractures , affecting the Foot (feet), toe(s) unspecified.

An employee was walking around a truck in a grassy area. She slipped and fell, suffering fractures to her left foot.

Hospitalized Foot (feet), toe(s) unspecified Ground

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

An excavator bucket was being removed. An employee was pulling a snap ring to remove a pin and lost his grip. The high-tension snap ring recoiled and his left middle fingertip was amputated by the snap ring.

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

An employee was installing a hydraulic cylinder on a boom lift. The cylinder slid down and caught the employee's right thumb resulting in a laceration and fracture to the right thumb.

UNITED RENTALS (NORTH AMERICA), INC.

An employee was servicing the generator. As the employee stepped over the containment berm, the employee slipped and fell on the generator trailer hitch, resulting in broken ribs.

United Rentals North America, Inc

An employee was setting up cribbing to complete an aerial lift track system repair. As he was lowering the jack stand, his hand was caught between an axle and the cribbing, resulting in partial amputation of their left index and left middle fingers at the first joint.

United Rentals (North America), Inc.

An employee was repairing a hydraulic leak on the valve block of a skid steer when the cab of the skid steer fell on the employee, resulting in a lower back injury that required surgery.

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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.

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

The injured employee was standing behind a table. She jumped out to scare another employee, but tripped and fell on the tile floor, injuring her right ankle/foot. She was hospitalized with a dislocated ankle that required surgery.

Regency IHS of Fairwinds Halletsville, LLC

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.

Caperton Furniture Works, LLC

An employee tripped over a concrete curb stop in a parking lot. The employee fell to the ground, landing on their left hip and breaking it.

EnerStar Rentals & Services, LTD

An employee was working on disassembling and moving a trailer house from a gas well pad. The employee was on the roof of the structure installing flashing. The employee fell to the ground below, sustaining a skull fracture and brain bleed. The employee was hospitalized.

Penske Truck Rental

An employee was working on a truck when the truck's door fell on his hand, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger.

U-Haul Company of Saint Louis

The injured employee had been working on the computer at the front desk in the showroom. An argument occurred with another employee and additional people got involved. Gunshots were fired. The employee was shot in the hip and was hospitalized.

Ryder Truck Rental

An employee was preparing to remove leaf spring bushings on the front drive axle of a tandem axle tractor. After raising the axle with a hydraulic jack, he placed two jack stands under the rear frame rails of the tractor and placed additional jack stands under the front drive axle. He then repositioned himself at the rear of the tractor where he reached for the release valve of the jack to begin lowering the axle (and frame) onto the jack stands. He was in a kneeling position while using his right hand to operate the release valve. His left hand was caught between the lowering frame rail and a jack stand. His left ring and middle fingertips were crushed, resulting in amputations.

DRIFTWOOD NURSERY & LANDSCAPING, INC

An employee was helping a coworker transport a tall palm tree with a mini skid steer. The employee was severely shocked by a high-voltage electrical wire above the ground.

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

An employee was retrieving a Christmas tree from a shelf using a ladder. He missed a step and fell to the concrete floor. He sustained injury to his head and wrist.

Envelope Seal Insulation, Inc

An employee was inspecting a generator whose radiator was leaking. He slipped, and a fan blade in the generator amputated his thumb and index finger.

Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida

An employee was operating an agricultural tractor during sugarcane harvesting. The employee sustained a lumbar sprain due to vibration or motion from the tractor.

Air-flo/Erwood Heating & Air Conditioning

An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.