Cape Girardeau, MO—Federal OSHA workplace-safety record
Cape Girardeau, MO
27 severe-injury reports between 2015-09-10 and 2025-03-13, 35 OSHA inspections, and 395 Form 300/301 injury filings on federal record in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Employers with the most severe injuries in Cape Girardeau
Example incidents
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Mercy Hospital Southeast
An employee was cleaning and mopping the floor of a restroom after repairing a toilet. The employee tripped over the metal support bracket for a privacy wall and fell. The employee suffered a fracture to the left femur at the knee (extending into the joint), as well as displaced fractures to the right humerus (specifically the humeral neck and the greater tuberosity) without dislocation.
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BOTKIN LUMBER CO., INC
An employee was dumping a dumpster of wooden blocks using a forklift. He was standing next to the dumpster and when the dumpster tilted forward. His finger was caught between the fork and the dumpster, resulting in an amputation of the finger.
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BIOKYOWA, INC.
Employees were moving a metal grate from over a concrete pit when one employee's fingers got caught between the grate and the edge of a concrete wall. The employee's right ring fingertip was amputated.
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SPARTECH LLC
An employee was building wooden pallets when a pneumatic nail gun discharged a nail into their leg. The employee sustained a laceration and was hospitalized.
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SPARTECH LLC
While trying to remove dust from a hopper, an employee sustained a partial amputation to his left ring fingertip. The equipment was running at the time.
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AUTO TIRE & PARTS COMPANY
An employee was making a delivery to a customer when he tripped on a four-inch rise on the floor. He fell forward into a forklift and sustained a four-and-a-half-inch laceration to the forehead and a neck vertebra fracture. The employee was hospitalized.
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Source: federal OSHA Severe Injury Reports, inspections, and ITA Form 300/301 filings. Counts reflect federal jurisdiction only.