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

FedEx Express

Exposure to electric arc · Electrical burns any degree

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at FedEx Express, 2001 World Wide Dr., FORT WORTH, TEXAS 76177 on — Electrical burns any degree , affecting the Ears and facial region unspecified.

An employee sustained burns to their face from an electrical arc flash.

Hospitalized Ears and facial region unspecified Source, secondary source unspecified

FedEx Express

An employee was delivering packages to a house. Four dogs got out of the house and attacked the employee, who suffered bites to the head, body and arm.

FedEx Express

An employee was scanning in product and went to step across the tongue of the trailer. The employee tripped over the tongue and fell to the ground fracturing their shin in multiple places which required surgery.

FedEx Express

An employee had just finished servicing an aircraft and was returning to the warehouse via the aircraft ramp when they were struck by a command loader's transition deck and knocked to the ground. A support wheel from the transition deck ran over the employee's left hand, resulting in injuries to the left hand and an index finger amputation. The employee also sustained a leg injury.

FEDEX Express

An employee was sitting on a tug when they fell and struck their head on the ground, resulting in a concussion.

FedEx Express

An employee was inside an aircraft loading freight containers. As she was pulling a container, her foot became caught under the wing lock, resulting in a foot fracture.

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Kasparian Underground LLC

An employee was terminating cables in a junction box. A loose ground wire came into contact with the bushing, causing a flash that burned the right side of the employee's face and his right hand.

Viking Utility Construction

An employee was using a bucket truck hoist to raise secondary aerial wiring. The wire made contact with the primary wire, causing an arc flash. The employee suffered burns to both hands and was hospitalized.

Jean Simpson Personnel Services, Inc.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

Vestas-American Wind Tech

Two employees were removing a circuit breaker. The injured employee was using wrenches in the removal process. One of the wrenches contacted an adjacent door, resulting in an arc flash. The employee suffered burns to their neck, face, and ear, as well as momentary vision loss due to the flash.

Grief Brothers Corporation

An employee was installing a fuse in a machine cabinet. An arc flash burned the employee's left arm, and the employee was hospitalized.

FedEx

A maintenance technician was working to clear a box jam. He slipped while stepping down from a platform and fell about 30 inches onto the grading platform. He fell onto his right hip and was hospitalized with a back injury requiring surgery.

UPS

An employee was unloading packages from a package wall. When he picked up a package and turned to move it, another package on the wall fell. A 3-foot tube on the package struck the employee's right big toe, causing hospitalization with an open displaced fracture of the proximal phalanx of the toe.

Shamrock Foods Delivery, Receiving & Distribution Center

An employee was opening the doors to a trailer while making a delivery when the wind caught the door and their hand was caught in the door. The employee sustained a displaced fracture of the distal phalanx of their left index finger.

UPS

After clearing a jam on a secured conveyor belt, an employee walked back to step down, lost their footing, and fell onto the ground outside a bay door. The employee was hospitalized with a fracture to their left arm/elbow.

United Parcel Service, Inc.

An employee was performing deliveries when he felt light-headed and experienced cramps. The employee sustained a heat-related illness.

T G Meat Center LLC

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

Professional Flooring Supply

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

EnviroSafe Demil LLC

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

Inteplast Group

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

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.