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

U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

Struck by animal unspecified · Cuts, lacerations, punctures without injury to internal structures

An employee was delivering mail when she was knocked to the concrete ground by dogs, resulting in lacerations to her head and neck. She was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Head and neck Dogs, canines domestic

Swift Beef Company

An employee was moving cattle when they were struck by a cow. The employee sustained two fractured ribs, a punctured lung, and internal bleeding.

El Coyote Ranch Airport-2TA8

An employee was assisting with the routine care of a rhino when their right thumb became caught between a pipe fence and the rhino. The thumb was amputated to the first joint.

JBS Foods, Inc.

An employee was reversing cattle when their left middle finger got caught between a cow and a hold-back gate, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

U.S. Department of the Interior

A team was sorting and loading wild horses onto trucks to be shipped to a new location and a gelding that had injured itself was being moved to a single pen. That horse then came back over the top of the employee who was working with it, striking them in the back and launching them approximately 8 feet into the air. This caused him to strike his face on a corral panel. The employee was hospitalized.