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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

MAXIM HEALTHCARE SERVICES INC

Hitting, kicking, beating by other person while providing medical or custodial care · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at MAXIM HEALTHCARE SERVICES INC, 149 Town Farm Rd, BUXTON, MAINE 04093 on — Fractures , affecting the Back lumbar region.

A temporary employee was walking a patient down the stairs when the patient pushed her and she fell down two steps to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with an endplate fracture of her L2 vertebra.

Hospitalized Back lumbar region Patient

Maxim Healthcare Services, Inc.

An employee was positioning a bed at a patient's home. She suffered a back injury while bending to lift the bed using a manual crank; she also suffered bruised legs while pushing and pulling the bed.

Maxim Healthcare Services, Inc.

An employee was providing home healthcare services when the employee fell to the kitchen floor of a private residence and fractured a shoulder, requiring hospitalization.

Maxim Healthcare Services, Inc.

Employee slipped on ice resulting in a broken nose and a back injury. Employee has been hospitalized since January 18, 2015.

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Madison BH, LLC

An employee was working to de-escalate an aggressive patient in the hallway when they were attacked, suffering a concussion and bruised ribs.

CENTERPOINT MEDICAL CENTER

An employee was working to draw blood from a patient. After sticking the patient's right arm, the patient kicked the employee in the stomach and used his left hand to strike the right side of the employee's face. The employee was hospitalized for an injury to their intestine.

Advocate Health Care

An employee was assisting an emergency room patient when the patient attacked the employee, who suffered a broken patella and tibia.

Neuro Restorative

An employee was in a common area with staff and residents when a resident attacked them, resulting in a fractured leg.

Capitol Region Education Council

An employee was watching students perform their daily tasks. A student who had been vacuuming the floor punched the teacher in the chest. She was hospitalized with chest pain, a fast heart rate, and vertigo.

Jean Simpson Personnel Services, Inc.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

Construction Staffing Solutions, LLC

A temporary employee was rigging secondary steel when the steel joist fell to the ground and struck his lower left leg, resulting in fractures to the tibia and fibula.

Upstage Center Acquisitions

A temporary employee was helping set up a stage for a concert. The employee was run over by a mobile cart and sustained a toe amputation. The employee was hospitalized.

The Coastal Group, Inc.

The injured employee was operating a reach truck and stopped at an intersection within a warehouse. After a brief a conversation, another employee's reach truck accelerated unexpectedly and struck the injured employee's stationary truck crushing his foot. He sustained fractures to his left foot and toes requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Onin Staffing, LLC

A temporary employee was operating a plastic strapping machine on an assembly line. The machine wrapped the employee, causing crushing injuries to their ribs and a kidney. The employee was hospitalized.

HB Fleming, Inc.

A crew was installing drilled micropiles alongside an outdoor covered deck foundation. The injured employee was working the front of the drill when a loose section of casing dropped onto the tip of a rig wrench and pulled the wrench down to an embedded casing. The employee's left little finger was caught between the rig wrench and the embedded casing and was amputated above the top knuckle.

GERRITY INDUSTRIES

Two employees were working to change a tire on a mobile slasher saw. The slasher weighs around 2,000 pounds and is towed. Employee 2 was lifting the saw while the injured employee was placing a block of wood under the frame for support. The slasher then lowered onto the block and the injured employee's left thumb was crushed between the slasher frame and the wood block, leading to an amputation at the first knuckle.

O&P Glass

An employee was using a metal shear when it amputated the tip of his right index finger.

Cives Steel Company New England

An employee was using a crane to move a 44-foot, 3,343-pound I-beam. As the beam was moving west, it straightened out (north to south), beginning to swing south toward the northwest corner of a building. The crane then sent the beam southward, directly toward the corner of the building. The beam caught the tips of the employee's left index, middle, and ring fingers against the building. The last joints of the middle and ring fingers were amputated, and the last joint of the index finger was partially crushed.

Longroad Energy

An employee was standing on a step stool, removing the nuts and bolts from the frame of a solar panel that was being replaced. The employee's cheek made contact with a connector with damaged insulation. The employee was shocked, briefly lost consciousness, and fell to the ground, suffering an injury to the left shoulder.