Exposure to environmental heat unspecified · Heat exhaustion, fatigue
At a glance
Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury
at Cincinnati Reds, LLC, 100 Joe Nuxhall Way, CINCINNATI, OHIO 45202
on — Heat exhaustion, fatigue, affecting the BODY SYSTEMS .
Final narrative
An employee was moving plastic barriers and felt ill. The employee was hospitalized with heat exhaustion.
At about 10:30 a.m. on August 7, 2025, a warehouse technician working for Tnemec Company, Inc., began sweating profusely a half-hour into their shift. The employee was using a forklift to move staged pallets of paint to a shrink-wrapper, shrink-wrap the pallets, and then load the pallets onto a truck using a forklift. The employee became ill about two hours later and was hospitalized for heat-related illness.
On July 29, 2025, an employee working near a metal furnace. Toward the end of his shift, he was charging a furnace and began to experienced heat exhaustion. He had also been in areas of elevated temperatures due to heat sources such as direct sunlight and a combustion engine. The employee was hospitalized with dehydration.
An employee was removing bleachers and separating two units when the front section of bleachers jumped up and caught his right index fingertip. The fingertip was crushed and amputated.
An employee was walking along the concourse in a stadium when they were struck from behind by a food cart that was being pushed. The cart lacerated the back of their left ankle and the employee fell to the ground, sustaining injuries. They were hospitalized for the ankle injury which required surgery to repair their Achilles tendon.
An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.
An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.
On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.
An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.
An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.