Fort Lauderdale, FL—Federal OSHA workplace-safety record
Fort Lauderdale, FL
192 severe-injury reports between 2015-03-11 and 2025-09-20, 2,404 OSHA inspections, and 1,356 Form 300/301 injury filings on federal record in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Employers with the most severe injuries in Fort Lauderdale
Example incidents
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Waste Pro of Florida, Inc.
An employee was trying to get down to the ground from the cab of his truck. He slipped, fell, and broke his right wrist.
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Sun Terminals Inc.
An employee was walking around a flatbed that was being unloaded by a forklift. The employee was placing dunnage on the floor while the forklift removed a double-stack pallet of foam. The dunnage from the double stack pallet became entangled with the adjacent pallet, causing the top pallet of the double-stack to fall and strike the employee. The employee sustained a dislocated ankle and fractured lower tibia and was hospitalized.
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Ed Morse Bayview Cadillac
An employee was walking down car garage stairs when he fell and suffered a broken right leg.
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The Oscar W. Larson Company
An employee was working to hang/support a pipe running vertically through a ceiling for a plumbing vent. A section of plywood had been laid perpendicularly across several ceiling joists to provide access to the work area. The employee was positioning himself to work a channel strut into place to support the pipe when he fell 9 feet from the ceiling trusses to the concrete floor. He sustained fractures to lumbar vertebrae and was hospitalized. Fall protection was not in place at the time.
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Enterprise Leasing Company of Florida LLC
An employee was walking in a parking garage to check the status of clean cars in the staging area. A car was driving through the area when it struck the employee and struck three other cars. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion, bruising on the face, a lip wound, broken teeth, and a fractured arm.
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Orion Marine Construction, Inc.
An employee was rigging a portable welding machine to the lifting hook of an excavator. Their right hand became caught between the excavator bucket and the welding machine. The employee sustained a laceration to their hand and a fracture/dislocation to their middle finger.
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Source: federal OSHA Severe Injury Reports, inspections, and ITA Form 300/301 filings. Counts reflect federal jurisdiction only.