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

Allied Waste Services of North America, LLC dba Republic Services of Melrose Park

Exposure to environmental heat outdoor · Heat exhaustion, fatigue

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Allied Waste Services of North America, LLC dba Republic Services of Melrose Park, 5050 W. LAKE STREET, MELROSE PARK, ILLINOIS 60160 on — Heat exhaustion, fatigue, affecting the BODY SYSTEMS .

On July 29, 2025, at approximately 3:00 PM, a driver reported feeling nauseous and weak. The employee was taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Heat environmental

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Clean Scapes Dallas LLC

On October 7, 2025, employee was installing mulch with a landscape crew. At around 2:15 PM, the employee took a break and started to feel cramping/pain. The employee was taken to the hospital with rhabdomyolysis due to heat exhaustion.

Meridian Waste Florida LLC

An employee was collecting garbage when they suffered muscle cramping and were hospitalized due to dehydration.

United Parcel Service

A delivery driver developed dehydration symptoms while driving his route. He was hospitalized.

MCNEILL LABOR MANAGEMENT INC.

A temporary employee was on top of a cane wagon, throwing cane down to the ground (i.e., planting). He reached the end of the field row and started to feel ill. He experienced cramping and headaches due to heat exhaustion.

Three G Trucking, Inc.

An employee became dehydrated while working in a field, planting sugar cane. The employee was hospitalized.

Shamrock Environmental Corporation

An employee was driving an ATV when it overturned and rolled onto its side. The employee sustained a fractured elbow requiring hospitalization and surgery.

EAGLE FORD RECLAMATION CO,LLC

An employee was elevating an auger when the auger shifted. He went to stop the auger from shifting when it struck him, resulting in injuries to his left ankle and pelvic bone.

Sawgrass Sustainable

An employee was training to use an industrial shredding machine. While he was dumping a box, the pulley on a conveyor caught the tongue of his right shoe and pulled his third toe into a pinch point between the conveyor belt and the pulley drive. The employee sustained an amputation to their toe.

Casella Waste Systems, Inc.

An employee was pushing a baler door that weighed about 500 pounds closed. A pair of wire cutters fell between the door and the baler wall. The employee was retrieving the wire cutters when the door closed, crushing the employee's right index finger against the baler wall and causing a partial amputation to the finger.

VLS Environmental Solutions LLC

An employee was stepping down from a walkway after coming off a barge when he slipped and fell to the ground, resulting in a fractured left femur.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.