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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Harrison Construction

Struck by other falling object n.e.c. · Fractures and soft tissue injuries

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Harrison Construction, 412 U.S. Hwy 11, MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI 39301 on — Fractures and soft tissue injuries, affecting the Multiple leg locations unspecified.

An employee was removing metal wall panels from a commercial building when a brick behind the panels fell on his leg, resulting in a broken left leg and a torn ACL in the right leg.

Hospitalized Multiple leg locations unspecified Bricks and pavers stone and masonry

RG Professional Carpenter, Inc.

The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

Rae Corporation

An employee was helping to move a 1,300-pound coil on a cart. The steel caster hit a crack in the concrete, the weld holding the caster onto the cart broke, and the coil and cart tipped over onto the employee. He was hospitalized with a laceration on his forehead and a pelvic fracture on his right side.

Red Dot Corporation

An employee was attempting to lift a steel beam from a horizontal, stacked position to a vertical position using a crane. They had placed two hooks on the east side of the beam on the flange. As the employee was hoisting the crane, the beam began to shift and pulled the employee forward onto the stack. When the material shifted, the hooks released and the material fell, pinning the employee between the two beams. The employee was hospitalized with soft tissue contusions on their proximal right thigh and interior left thigh.

Simon Contractors of South Dakota, Inc.

An employee was moving a tensile strength test device with a dolly. The device fell from the dolly onto the employee's right leg, causing a compound fracture.

RJV Construction

An employee was rigging I-beams. An I-beam slid off the stack of I-beams and fractured the employee's leg.

Burke Builders Inc

An employee was cutting cabinet trim using a table saw when four fingers on his left hand were severed, resulting in hospitalization and amputation.

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.

Cross Management Corp.

An employee was installing insulation in a wall when she tripped on a hole (12" deep) and fell, hitting her head on the concrete floor. The employee sustained fractures to her leg and wrist, and lacerations to her head. The employee was hospitalized.

STEEL STRUCTURES AMERICA INC

An employee was loading a 4-inch wooden door into a pickup truck when he felt a pop in his right side behind his shoulder blade. He was hospitalized later that day and underwent surgery, having suffered a collapsed right lung.

Trejo Concrete & Steel, LLC

An employee was operating a power drill when it slipped. The drill bit punctured the employee's hand and they were hospitalized.

Howard Industries Inc.

An employee was checking a pole-type transformer tank for leaks. A hydraulic clamping device was lowered onto his right thumb and crushed it against the sharp edge of the bottom of the tank. He suffered a partial transphalangeal amputation to the thumb.

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.

Owl's Head Alloys West Point

An employee was going into a trailer to mark product for shipment and the trailer pulled away from the dock. The employee fell out of the trailer, contacted the dock plate, and then fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a punctured lung, fractured ribs, and contusions.

Ingalls Shipbuilding

An employee was hooking up bundled tie-downs with a chain. While he was holding a hook, the other hook was unlocked. This caused the employee's hook to slide down and pinch his right index finger between the chain and the shackle. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip (without bone loss), as well as an open fracture.

Heavy Equipment Movers and Installation, LLC

An employee was operating a gas tugger to lift metal sheeting. His left hand was pulled into the pulley, which crushed his left thumb, resulting in avulsions and other tissue damage. He was hospitalized and required surgery.