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

KWJ Child Care

Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Dislocations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at KWJ Child Care, 2050 Oak Tree Road, EDISON, NEW JERSEY 08820 on — Dislocations, affecting the Hip joint(s).

An employee was walking when they slipped and fell to the floor. The employee sustained a dislocated hip.

Hospitalized Hip joint(s) Other constructed surface

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.

Early Education & Care, Inc.

An employee was exiting a building when she lost her balance on the door threshold, fell, and struck a concrete step. She suffered a broken left femur.

Episcopal Children's Services Inc

During a home visit, an employee was coming down a flight of carpeted stairs carrying two bags. One of the bags (a heavy one) caught on a child's car seat at the bottom of the stairs, and the employee tripped and fell down about four stairs. She suffered a broken left knee.

Kindercare Education

An employee was startled by a spider while sitting at her desk. She fell backward from her chair, landed on her left hip, and broke it. She was hospitalized.

KinderCare Education

On April 4, 2025, an employee was walking across the classroom when she tripped on a chair and fell to the ground, striking her head and left ear. The employee was hospitalized.

Creme dela Creme Pre-School

An employee was picking up a child on the playground when she pulled her lower back. The employee was hospitalized with lower back pain.

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.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.