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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

The Saxena Company LLC

Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feet · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at The Saxena Company LLC, 2504 41st Street, NW, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 20018 on — Fractures , affecting the Multiple trunk locations.

A construction employee fell from the second floor to the first floor, resulting in four broken ribs and a fracture to his spine.

Hospitalized Multiple trunk locations Source, secondary source unspecified

Cashless Tolling Constructors

An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.

Cornell & Company, Inc.

An employee was standing on the surface of a steel beam about two feet wide. He slipped and fell backward, landing on the concrete ground about 20 feet below. The employee sustained a broken pelvis.

Anderson Columbia Co., Inc.

An employee was cleaning out an inlet pipe in a stormwater structure. The employee stepped back, fell into the pipe, and landed on concrete 13 feet below, at the bottom of the structure. He suffered a broken back.

Freeman Expositions, LLC

An employee was working on a platform, raised 6 to 8 feet in the air, to get something off a rack. The employee fell from the platform to the ground and sustained a head injury and injury to multiple body parts.

Faler Feed Store, Inc.

An employee was preparing to unjam an auger shaft while standing on a forklift-elevated, job-made platform. The employee's wrench slipped off the equipment, causing them to lose their balance and fall. The employee landed on the ground 14 feet below and suffered fractures to the orbital bone, left elbow, and lower back.

Dynamic Builders Corp

An employee was on an extension ladder descending from a roof when the ladder collapsed and lowered. The employee fell approximately 20 feet to the ground, resulting in fractures to their ribs and left wrist.

Pre Con Construction, Inc.

The injured employee was acting as a spotter for another employee that was using a forklift to move crane plates. The injured employee went to walk on top of staged bracing poles that had been stacked. The top layer of bracing shifted when stepped on, causing the employee to lose balance and fall. During the fall, one of the bracing poles dislodged and landed on the employee s left leg, causing a compound fracture.

Lueck's Home Improvements, Inc.

An employee was working to remove an existing window from a customer's home. The employee was descending an extension ladder when they fell backward onto a concrete patio. The employee sustained head trauma and fractures to their shoulder, ribs, and a vertebra.

Sunset Home Specialist, LLC

An employee was painting the exterior of a house when they fell approximately 12 feet from a ladder. They landed on the ground and sustained a fractured right ankle.

Eddie Mack Construction., LLC

An employee climbed a ladder onto a roof, then stepped from new roof sheathing onto a tarped section of old roof, and fell to the ground. The employee suffered fractures to their pelvis, vertebrae, and the left wrist. The employee was hospitalized.

Smart Building Technologies - A Fidelity Company

An employee was troubleshooting the control setup for a variable air volume box above a ceiling. The employee's hand came into contact with an exposed, energized 277-volt wire that had loosened from its terminal on the box's assembly. He was shocked and fell off a ladder. His left hand passed across the ceiling grid and was lacerated. He also suffered an electrical burn to the right hand and was hospitalized.

Goodrich Fire & Life Safety

An employee was assembling a baker type scaffold. He was beginning to transverse down the scaffold, approximately six feet off the ground, when the scaffold tipped over and he fell. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured femur.

Harris Teeter #352

An employee was stocking and ordering the meat case on the sales floor when he slipped and fell due to water on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.

Georgetown University

An employee was working on an exhaust fan on the roof when he tripped on a wire and fell to the ground. The employee sustained scrapes on his elbow, and a fractured right knee with a torn ACL. The employee was hospitalized.

United Masonry and Landscaping, LLC

An employee was climbing a scaffold when he slipped and fell 10 to 15 feet to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle.