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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Plug Power Inc.

Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Plug Power Inc., 1700 Rte 291, HARRISONVILLE, MISSOURI 64701 on — Fractures , affecting the Knee(s).

An employee was retrieving a part off of a storage rack in a maintenance area. When she turned around, she tripped on a battery puller cart and landed on her knee, resulting in a fractured kneecap.

Hospitalized Knee(s) Other constructed surface

PLUG POWER INC

Employees were pulling cables through a stationary unit under the 200-pound battery storage tray. The injured employee's hand was on top of the battery tray to assist with the cabling. The tray was sitting on the frame and had not yet been secured in place and was cantilevered. The tray tipped and slid down toward the employee's foot pinning it against a nearby part, causing a compound fracture of the right tibia.

PLUG POWER INC

Employees were replacing a check valve at the hydrogen pad. An employee was using wrenches to undo a fitting on a stainless steel line that carries hydrogen gas when hydrogen gas released and something caused a flash fire. The employee sustained second-and third-degree burns to their forearms.

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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.

Cantex Inc

An employee turned a corner while walking, tripped over the corner of a pallet on the floor, fell onto her arm, and broke it. She was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Pillar Electric Group, LP

An employee was moving a transformer from inside a shop. He was rolling it down a ramp when it tipped over onto his right foot and big toe, resulting in crush injuries and a laceration.

Global 3, LTD

Employees were moving an electrical cabinet by using two wheeled equipment skates. One of the wheels of the skates became caught in a crack in the floor, causing the equipment to tip over and land on an employee's right foot. The employee's foot was fractured.

Reel Power International, Inc.

An employee was using an industrial magnet to lift and maneuver a weldment. While the frame was being set down on the welding table, the magnet disengaged prematurely; the frame fell and crushed the employee's left ring and middle fingers. The employee underwent medical amputations to the middle finger (at the first knuckle) and the ring finger (just past the second knuckle).

EPI Enclosures & Engineering

An employee was working on an order when they were struck by a forklift. This caused the employee to bump into a machine. The employee suffered a laceration to the right thigh, requiring hospitalization.

WADDELL CONCRETE INC.

An employee was readjusting a safety hook to remove hardware from gang forms when his feet slipped. He fell to the ground, resulting in a broken left arm and wrist.

Dollar Tree

An employee was on a step ladder in a store aisle, making room on shelving for merchandise. She fell from the step ladder to the floor, suffering two fractures in her left leg. She was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Corrigan Brothers Inc

An employee was closing the side cargo door to a company van. The tip of his finger got caught between the door and the door jamb, resulting in a partial amputation.

Plumb Supply Company

An employee lost his footing while climbing an inclined ladder. He stumbled down one step and was able to stabilize himself by holding the railing and twisting his body, but he suffered an internal abdominal injury and was hospitalized.

JRI INDUSTRIES

An employee was manipulating dies on a brake press. The press caught and crushed the employee's right forearm, resulting in hospitalization.