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

Lowes Home Center, LLC

Struck by powered vehicle-nontransport, n.e.c. · Swelling, inflammation, irritation-nonspecified injury

An employee was unloading drywall from a forklift. The weight of the drywall caused the forklift to tilt as the drywall was being moved off the forks. As soon as the drywall was fully removed from the forks, the truck tilted back in place and injured the employee, who suffered major swelling of the neck/spine and required hospitalization.

Hospitalized Neck and back Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

Shamrock Foods Company

An employee was going to fill a pallet with items from the warehouse. He was reaching for the handle of the pallet jack but unintentionally grabbed the throttle, causing the pallet jack to move and pin him against another pallet jack. The employee sustained a leg fracture.

DG Distribution Midwest LLC

An employee was loading merchandise onto rolling containers that were on a remote-operated order picker. While reorganizing merchandise to prevent top loading, the employee's wireless control device contacted a container and caused the order picker to move forward. The employee's right ring finger was caught between two containers and was amputated above the first knuckle.

Manhattan Construction

The injured employee was operating an elevator at a construction site. He went from the tenth floor to the eleventh floor with a plumber and a scissor lift in the elevator. The plumber was using a remote to operate the scissor lift. As the scissor lift was exiting the elevator, a pipe that was on the scissor lift struck the injured employee's chest. The employee was hospitalized.

Coca Cola Refreshments

An employee was stepping off a pallet jacket when they fell backward. The throttle engaged and the vehicle ran over the employee's right ankle.

Bilderback's Auto Parts Inc

An employee was dismantling the engine from a vehicle. The vehicle slid off the loader and struck the employee, pushing him into his toolbox. The employee sustained a broken jaw.