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

Hillside Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Inc.

Non-venomous animal bites except "bugs" · Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Hillside Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Inc., 51 SPCA Road, POTTSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA 17901 on — Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures, affecting the Upper arm(s).

An employee was returning a dog to his kennel after a walk. The dog turned on her and bit her right upper arm, causing lacerations. The employee was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Upper arm(s) Dogs, canines domestic

U.S. Postal Service

An employee delivered a package. On her way back to her vehicle she was attacked by two dogs that came from around a corner. She was hospitalized with dog bites.

WEST AFFUM DEVELOPMENT CO LLC

An employee was visiting a patient's home to fit them with a wearable cardiac defibrillator. As he was walking from the front door to his car, a large dog broke free from a chain and attacked him. He was bitten on the forearm and fell. The patient was then able to restrain the dog. The employee was hospitalized with severe dog bites and required surgery.

Bloom Logistics, Inc.

An employee was delivering a package. A dog bit the employee in the abdominal area, and the employee was hospitalized.

Dept. of Homeland Security - CBP

At about 3:10 p.m. on October 3, 2025, an employee was inspecting a car. Two dogs that had been in another car were leashed and tethered to a bollard. As the employee inspected the first car along with a narcotics detection dog, one of the other dogs came loose and attacked the narcotics dog. The employee was separating the dogs when the other dog bit his left ring finger. The last joint of the finger was injured and part of it was bitten off.

Town and Country Veterinary Hospital

An employee was restraining a cat that was thrashing in its cage while recovering from anesthesia so the veterinarian could administer sedation. The cat bit the employee on their left thumb, resulting in hospitalization due to an infection.

Scenic Hudson, Inc.

On August 21, 2025, an employee was hitching a 20-foot flatbed trailer loaded with a tractor to a pickup truck. As she placed her left fingers near the hitch mechanism to check the remaining distance needed for coupling, the trailer jack dropped into place, contacting her middle and ring fingers. The hitch and ball then made contact with her middle finger. The employee suffered crush injuries to her middle and ring fingers and a fingertip amputation of the middle finger.

Sheldon Hart Mountain National Wildlife Refuge

An employee was driving an all-terrain vehicle when it rolled over. The employee was ejected and hit the ground, suffering a fracture to their C6 vertebra.

Animal Care and Control of NYC

An employee was taking a dog out of a kennel. The dog lunged for the leash and bit the employee's left hand, causing a laceration.

Humane Society Naples: Main Shelter

An employee was placing a cat into a cat carrier when the cat bit the employee's right hand. The employee was hospitalized.

Main Line Clinical Labs

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Ardent Mills

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

Zimmerman & Herr

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

McAneny Brothers, Inc.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

Metz Culinary Management LLC

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.