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

APM TERMINALS

Exposure to environmental heat outdoor · Heat stroke, syncope

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at APM TERMINALS, 5080 MCLESTER ST., ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY 07207 on — Heat stroke, syncope, affecting the BODY SYSTEMS .

An employee developed heat-related illness while working at a freight terminal, removing items from a container. Dehydrated and suffering from heat exhaustion, the employee lost consciousness.

Hospitalized BODY SYSTEMS Heat environmental

APM TERMINALS

An employee was tightening a turnbuckle while attempting to conduct lash-back operations on a ship when their left gloved hand was caught between the upper and lower turnbuckles. The employee suffered a crush injury to the little finger that resulted in a fingertip amputation.

APM TERMINALS

An employee was fixing a hatch cover on a vessel when the hatch shifted and crushed their right little finger between the cover and the deck. The employee sustained a fractured finger.

APM TERMINALS

Two employees were operating company vehicles in the yard and collided with each other.

APM TERMINALS

At around 4:45 p.m. on August 13, 2020, an employee had just parked a rubber tire gantry and was climbing down from it. He slipped and fell from the fourth rung to the ground, suffering a broken leg and a possible broken tibia and fibula.

APM Terminals

A truck knocked over an employee, who suffered broken bones.

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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.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Kisatchie Midnight Express

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

J-Mar Enterprises

An employee was on the ground working to close a trailer door. The door was caught by the wind and blew the employee backward. He landed on his back and sustained four fractured ribs, requiring hospitalization.

Federal Express Corporation

An employee had been loading packages into a vehicle. While exiting the vehicle, he tripped and fell, fracturing both ankles.

Texas Enterprises, Inc.

An employee was working from the elevated bucket of an excavator when they fell between two tanks and landed on the ground. The employee sustained a fractured leg.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.