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

Asplundh

Struck by powered vehicle tipping over-nontransport · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Two employees were mowing vegetation under a powerline with a mulching machine. Due to the rough terrain, the machine had to be pulled out with a winch that was on the machine. The winch cable broke, causing the machine to roll onto its side with one employee inside. The employee injured his back and was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified Mowing machinery, n.e.c.

Persons Services Corp.

An employee was working underneath a 2-foot section of piping that was attached to a forklift. As the forklift was lowering the piping into the ground, the forklift became unsteady and the rear wheels lifted off the ground. The forklift started to tip forward but did not overturn. The mast of the forklift struck the employee causing a fractured arm, fractured ribs, and a back injury.

Progressive Iron and Metal

An employee was offloading scrap metal when the semi-truck with a dump trailer tipped over onto the employee. The employee was hospitalized for head injuries and a laceration to their hip.

Adolfson & Peterson, Inc.

On September 10, 2022, an employee was vibrating poured concrete. A concrete boom truck's right front stabilizer sank into the ground; the truck tipped, and its boom struck the employee. The employee sustained multiple fractures, dislocations, abrasions, contusions, strains/sprains, and lacerations to multiple body parts, as well as a concussion. The employee was hospitalized.

System Studies & Simulation, Inc.

An employee was preparing an inoperable AH-64 Apache Helicopter for tractor-trailer removal from the training area. During the process, the helicopter rolled on its side and caught the employee's left leg underneath it resulting in a fractured tibia, fibula, and ankle.

W. L. Petrey Wholesale Company

An employee was sitting on a forklift with his seatbelt on. The forklift he was operating was stuck in the yard, so another forklift had hooked a chain to his forklift and was attempting to pull it loose. The forklift then turned over on its side and the employee's foot was caught underneath it, fracturing the foot.