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

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 8HHNHB028

Fall while sitting · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 8HHNHB028, 9000 ROCKVILLE PIKE, ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND 20892 on — Fractures , affecting the Thigh(s).

An employee was using a mobility scooter to traverse a hallway. They turned around in the doorway of an automatic door. It started closing and struck the mobility scooter causing it to tip over and land on the employee. The employee sustained a broken femur.

Hospitalized Thigh(s) Wheelchairs, scooters powered

Edward Jones Investments

An employee was working at her desk. She went to stand up and fell to the floor beside the desk. The employee sustained a hip displacement and required surgery.

CHI Family Medicine

A doctor was sitting on a rolling stool when it moved out from under him. He fell, landed on his left hip, and suffered a broken left femur. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Sanford Health

An employee went to sit on a chair when it rolled out from under her, causing her to fall to the floor and strike her head. The employee was hospitalized with a closed fracture to a thoracic vertebra.

Prosperity Bank-BC 423

An employee was validating receipts at the drive thru at the bank. While reaching for the validator, the employee slipped out of her chair, striking the back of her head on the concrete floor. The employee sustained trauma to her head.

Sunrise of Abington

An employee had been sitting at a desk. While standing up from the desk, her feet became caught in a wire that was under the desk, causing her to fall out of her chair. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis and was hospitalized.

Compass Group

An employee was taking two bags of trash out to the dumpster when she tripped and fell, striking her shoulder on a railing. The employee was hospitalized with an injury to the shoulder.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention

An employee was walking to another area and opening a door when she fell to the ground. The employee sustained abrasions to her nose, forehead, and chin, as well as fractured wrists.

Indian Health Service

An employee was standing on a ladder installing a fluorescent light bulb ballast when he contacted a live wire and received an electrical shock to his left hand, causing him to fall from the ladder to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with an electrical shock and burns to his left hand, as well as fractures to his right tibia and distal right radius. The wire was not deenergized or locket out/tagged out.

Berks Encore

An employee was walking in a parking lot when they slipped on ice and fell, resulting in a broken lower right leg and twisted ankle.

Centers for Disease Control

An employee was walking down the stairs when she missed the last step and fell to the ground, breaking her right femur and requiring hospitalization.

United States Marshals Service

An employee was closing a gun locker in his automobile trunk when his left middle finger was partially amputated by the lid.

National Security Agency

An employee was ascending a flight of stairs after exiting their vehicle in an adjacent employee parking lot. The employee stepped to the right to avoid another employee on the left who was descending the stairs. The employee lost their balance and fell on the stairs. They were hospitalized with a laceration/abrasion to their chin, a fractured left humerus, and bruising to their left knee.

U.S. Postal Service

A mail handler was moving BMCs on the loading dock when they fell from the loading dock to the concrete ground below. The employee was hospitalized with head trauma.

SJW Contractors

An employee was on an A-frame ladder while preforming demolition of a ceiling. A section of HVAC ductwork fell on the employee and knocked them to the ground approximately 12 feet below. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion and lacerations.

U.S. Department of Army

On the morning of July 24, 2025, an employee was conducting synthesis of a highly toxic experimental chemical (nerve agent) in a chemical fume hood. The operation was completed at approximately 11:30 AM. The employee was exposed to the chemical and began experiencing symptoms of illness/poisoning around 1:30 PM and was hospitalized.