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

Moving Oz LLC

Fall on same level resulting in exposure or contact · Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Moving Oz LLC, 920 N Spruce St, NEWTON, KANSAS 67114 on — Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures, affecting the Abdomen unspecified.

An employee was moving a piece of furniture up a flight of stairs. At the top of the stairs, he lost his balance and fell backward onto a couch with a metal bracket sticking up out of it. He suffered a laceration to the abdomen and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Hospitalized Abdomen unspecified Other constructed surface

Quality Snack Foods, Inc.

A sanitation employee entered the chemical room and slipped on the wet floor. When he slipped, he kicked over a bucket containing cleaning chemicals. The chemicals splashed onto the employee's clothing and burned his skin.

Giant Food Stores

An employee tripped while walking from one store register station to another. Her forehead struck a register, and she suffered fractures to two vertebrae in her neck. She was hospitalized.

Tri-Tech Laboratories

An employee was using an electric pallet jack to retrieve a chemical tote from a staging lane. He inserted the pallet jack under the tote and began to back up. After moving backward for approximately 15 feet, the employee tripped on a collapsible tote. As he fell, the pallet jack ran over his left foot. His ankle was lacerated and his foot was fractured.

Mirabito Holdings Inc.

An employee had been unloading tires from the back of a pickup truck. The employee went to step down out of the back of the pickup truck and stepped on the lift gate in a vertical position. The lift gate tipped and employee fell, impacting their side on the upright liftgate. The employee sustained five fractured ribs and a punctured right lung. The employee was hospitalized.

Vallourec Star, LP

An employee fell onto a hot billet and suffered a burn to the left leg. The employee was hospitalized.

U-Haul Co. of North Philadelphia

An employee was standing on the hood of a box truck to fix a water leak in the cargo box of the truck. When he was descending the hood, he fell to the ground, resulting in a fractured pelvis.

Covan World-Wide Moving, Incorporated

An employee was unloading boxes from a truck at a residence, which included lifting boxes from the vehicle and placing them onto the ground to carry them into the residence. During this process, he suddenly experienced severe back pain, resulting in hospitalization due to a strain.

BBM Madison, LLC

An employee was carrying a couch up the ramp of a moving truck with his partner. The employee was moving forward up the ramp, and his partner was moving backward up the ramp. The partner had reached the top of the ramp and was inside the truck while the employee was approaching the top of the ramp when a sudden gust of wind hit the employee and the couch. The employee fell forward and to the right, landing on his ribs at the top of the ramp. The employee suffered a fractured rib and a laceration to his liver that required hospitalization.

U-Haul Company of South Austin

An employee was assisting a customer with attaching a trailer to their vehicle using a trailer mover. The trailer slipped from the trailer mover. As a result, the trailer mover struck the employee s left knee. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left kneecap that required surgery.

TMT KC LLC

An employee was carrying items with a co-worker when they started cramping and fell over, unable to move. The employee was hospitalized for dehydration.

Omya Inc.

An employee was working to remove a product blockage from a piece of equipment. The employee was struck by a metal bar near the deck of the pin mixer equipment and sustained blunt force trauma to the torso.

John Deere Coffeyville Works

An employee was moving a rack onto a lower conveyor in the south heat treat area when their finger got caught between the part tray and the rollers, resulting in a fingertip fracture and amputation.

Haven Steel Products Inc

An employee was climbing a ladder to get on top of the breakroom. The ladder slipped, causing him to fall to the ground. The employee sustained fractures to his upper back, left foot, and ankle.

Vestas-American Wind Tech

Two employees were removing a circuit breaker. The injured employee was using wrenches in the removal process. One of the wrenches contacted an adjacent door, resulting in an arc flash. The employee suffered burns to their neck, face, and ear, as well as momentary vision loss due to the flash.

Alliance Ag and Grain LLC

An employee bent over to pick up a rubber mat from the ground. When he grabbed the corner of the mat, a rattlesnake hidden under it bit his left middle finger near the first knuckle. He was hospitalized.