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

FALCONER, NEW YORK—

Truck-Lite Co., LLC

Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Fractures

Final narrative

An employee was walking down a warehouse aisle while a coworker was driving a forklift truck from the opposite direction. They passed each other, but the forklift truck driver remembered that he had a question for the employee. The driver reversed the forklift truck and the employees had a conversation. Once the conversation was over, the employee turned to walk behind the forklift truck. The forklift truck driver forgot he was in reverse and hit the employee, driving over the top of his leg. The employee sustained an open compound fracture to the left leg.

Hospitalized Leg(s), unspecified Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

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MIAMI, FLORIDA—

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EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO—

S. H. Bell Company

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NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND—

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CORSICANA, TEXAS—

Oil City Iron Works, Inc.

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AMERICAN FALLS, IDAHO—

Canyon Falls Farms

An employee was walking around a work area when he was struck by a forklift that was backing up, resulting in several broken bones in his foot.