Severe Workplace Injuries in Hartford, Connecticut
Employers in Hartford reported 51 severe work injuries to OSHA from 2015 through October 2025: 47 workers hospitalized and 6 amputations (12% of reports). Health care and social assistance accounts for the most reports. OSHA opened an inspection after 7 of them.
Reports by year
Industries
How workers were hurt
Parts of the body injured
OSHA inspections in Hartford since 2015
Workplace safety inspectors opened 419 inspections at Hartford workplaces, and 236 of them (56%) ended with at least one violation. Inspectors cited 564 serious, 2 willful and 14 repeat violations, with current penalties totaling $1,600,453.
Rules cited most often:
Recent inspections with penalties
| Employer | Violations | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| Rhino-Back Roofing LLC (referral, details) | 5 (3 serious+) | $13,613 |
| Wadsworth Atheneum Museum Of Art (planned, details) | 38 (27 serious+) | $37,083 |
| Fahrenheit Mechanical Services, Inc. (complaint, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $6,191 |
| Mackenzie Painting Co., Inc. (unprogrammed, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $5,500 |
| Genuine Parts Company (referral, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $100,000 |
| United Refrigeration Inc (referral, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $23,832 |
| City Of Hartford (referral, details) | 2 (1 serious+) | $525 |
| Seci Construction Inc. (referral, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $23,170 |
| State Of Connecticut, Division Of Public Defender Services (complaint, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $100 |
| Eyam Home Improvement LLC (referral, details) | 2 (1 serious+) | $4,966 |
| State Of Connecticut Department Of Energy And Environmental Protection (complaint, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $240 |
| Nuco Enterprise, LLC (complaint, details) | 7 (6 serious+) | $22,698 |
Penalties as currently recorded by OSHA; they can drop after settlement or contest. Inspection data covers federal OSHA inspections and state-run safety program inspections reported to OSHA.
Most recent reports
The 30 newest severe injury reports from Hartford employers, as OSHA published them.
Oct 10, 2025 · United Refrigeration Inc Amputation
An employee was re-arranging boxes of pipe insulation on a pallet. One of the boxes fell from the pallet and knocked over an upright empty cylinder. The cylinder fell and crushed the tip of the employee's right toe. The employee's toe required surgical amputation.
Struck by object tipping over · Toes(s), toenail(s) · Wholesale trade · OSHA inspection 1860966
Sep 24, 2025 · Connecticut Children's Medical Center Hospitalized
An employee was turning and repositioning a patient when they strained their lower back. The employee was hospitalized with a herniated disc.
Overexertion while providing medical or custodial care · Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back · Health care and social assistance
Sep 11, 2025 · Capitol Region Education Council Hospitalized
An employee was watching students perform their daily tasks. A student who had been vacuuming the floor punched the teacher in the chest. She was hospitalized with chest pain, a fast heart rate, and vertigo.
Hitting, kicking, beating by other person while providing medical or custodial care · Chest · Educational services
Jun 28, 2025 · Mackenzie Painting Company, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was cleaning a spray paint gun at the end of the day when pressurized paint was injected from the paint gun into his left middle finger. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.
Struck by discharged object or substance · Other finger(s) (other) · Construction
Jun 27, 2025 · Eversource Energy Service Company Hospitalized
An employee was leaving a customer location. While descending stairs, their shoe slid on edge of the top stair causing them to fall and land on their right leg a couple of stairs below. The employee sustained a ruptured patella tendon requiring hospitalization and surgery.
Other fall to lower level · Knee(s) · Utilities
Feb 26, 2025 · Trinity Health of New England Hospitalized
An employee was walking to or from the soiled utility room when she slipped on pretreatment decontamination foam on the floor and fell. The employee sustained a dislocated left patella.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Knee(s) · Health care and social assistance
Oct 26, 2024 · Church Homes, Inc. Hospitalized
Two employees were taking a resident on a walk. They were struck by a car and were hospitalized. One employee was treated and released and the other suffered a fractured ankle and multiple injuries to the second ankle/foot.
Pedestrian struck by vehicle · Ankle(s) · Health care and social assistance
Apr 26, 2024 · Trinity Health of New England Hospitalized
An employee slipped on water on the floor in the hallway and fell, fracturing their left patella.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Knee(s) · Health care and social assistance
Mar 19, 2024 · Shepard Steel Company, Inc. Amputation
An employee was loading a delivery trailer. The load of steel shifted and pinched the tip of the employee's middle finger, amputating the fingertip and the nail.
Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing
Nov 21, 2023 · U. S. Postal Service Hospitalized
Employee 1 was operating a tow tractor and suffered a medical event. Employee 2 came to help and employee 1 fell on employee 2. This caused employee 2 to fall and sustain a broken hip.
Injury by other person-unintentional or intent unknown · Hip(s) · Transportation and warehousing
Mar 23, 2023 · Hartford Healthcare Hospitalized
An employee was watching a demonstration while standing on a mat. She took a step back, lost her balance, and fell to the ground, sustaining a fractured hip.
Fall on same level · Hip(s) · Health care and social assistance
Feb 20, 2023 · Trinity Health of New England Hospitalized
An employee was walking into an office when he fell to the floor and sustained a femur fracture.
Fall on same level · Thigh(s) · Health care and social assistance
Feb 9, 2023 · ABM Hospitalized
An employee was monitoring paperwork in an office when they were exposed to dust from concrete grinding and chipping. The employee sustained fungal pneumonia.
Inhalation of harmful substance · Lung(s), pleura · Administrative, staffing and waste services
Nov 5, 2022 · Hartford Healthcare Hospitalized
An employee had an asthma attack after being exposed to floor stripping and waxing chemicals. The employee was hospitalized.
Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode · Body systems · Health care and social assistance
Aug 26, 2022 · Shepard Steel Company, Inc. Amputation
An employee was placing cribbing under steel plates when the magnet separated, causing the 1,900-pound steel plate to crush the employee's finger. The employee's finger was amputated.
Struck by falling object or equipment · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1617707
Jul 14, 2022 · NAES, Corp. Amputation
An employee was using a hand winch to open a door on a trommel machine. The cable came off the pulley. The employee was manually placing the cable back onto the pulley when his right index fingertip was amputated in a pinch point.
Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects · Fingertip(s) · Administrative, staffing and waste services
May 20, 2022 · Connecticut Children's Medical Center Hospitalized
An employee slipped and fell while mopping the floor. The employee sustained torn ligaments in the knee requiring hospitalization.
Fall on same level due to slipping · Knee(s) · Health care and social assistance
May 9, 2022 · HNS Management Co., Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was performing maintenance on a bus. When the employee reached into the engine compartment, the starter engaged and a pulley belt caught the employee's wrist and fractured it.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Wrist(s) · Transportation and warehousing
Apr 5, 2022 · HNS Management Co., Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was walking from his car toward the building and fell forward sustaining scrapes on the right side of his head and a possible head injury.
Fall on same level (other) · Brain · Transportation and warehousing
Mar 5, 2022 · UPS Hospitalized
An employee was walking down a flight of stairs when he slipped and twisted his right knee. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery on the knee.
Slip without fall (other) · Knee(s) · Administrative, staffing and waste services
Jan 18, 2022 · UPS Hospitalized
An employee was setting up his tractor truck when he slipped on a patch of ice on the ground. He suffered torn quadriceps muscles in both legs.
Slip on substance without fall · Thigh(s) · Administrative, staffing and waste services
Oct 28, 2021 · The Root Center for Advanced Recovery Hospitalized
An employee was retrieving items from a safe when the door of the safe came off its hinges and struck the employee, resulting in a fractured and lacerated arm.
Struck by falling object or equipment (other) · Arm(s) · Health care and social assistance
Oct 22, 2021 · Hartford Hospital Hospitalized
An employee was walking through a hospital when they slipped on a wet floor and fell, resulting in a broken leg.
Fall on same level due to slipping · Leg(s) · Health care and social assistance
Sep 8, 2021 · Trinity Health of New England Hospitalized
A nurse was performing a restraint on a combative patient and sustained a tear to his quadriceps that required surgery.
Injured by physical contact with person while restraining, subduing-unintentional · Thigh(s) · Health care and social assistance
Feb 22, 2021 · The Travelers Indemnity Company Hospitalized
An employee slipped on a wet floor in a building while walking toward the exit. The employee fell, suffering a broken kneecap.
Fall on same level due to slipping · Knee(s) · Finance and insurance
Feb 5, 2021 · CT Transit Hospitalized
An employee was walking down the stairs on the roof and slipped on ice, resulting in a torn tendon.
Other fall to lower level · Nonclassifiable · Transportation and warehousing
Nov 15, 2020 · Taco Bell Hospitalized
In the course of an altercation, one employee shot another.
Shooting by other person-intentional · Nonclassifiable · Hotels and restaurants
Mar 25, 2020 · Charter Oak Utility Constructors Hospitalized
An employee fell into an electrical vault, landing on a concrete floor about 10 feet below and suffering bruises and sprains.
Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet · Nonclassifiable · Utilities
Jan 13, 2020 · Manafort Brothers Incorporated Hospitalized
On January 13, 2020, the injured employee made a 3/4 cut into a 7-inch abandoned water pipe. An excavator operator extended the excavator bucket to push down onto the pipe and finish breaking it off. After the pipe broke loose, the excavator operator hooked the cut end of the pipe with one of the bucket's teeth and started to slide the pipe away from underneath the trench box. The pipe popped off the bucket's tooth and struck the injured employee in the leg.
Struck by dislodged flying object, particle · Leg(s) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1455483
Jan 8, 2020 · Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center Hospitalized
An employee was changing into her work uniform in a locker room when she had a suspected allergic reaction to peanuts.
Exposure to other harmful substances · Body systems · Health care and social assistance
After a workplace injury in Connecticut
Most work injuries are handled through workers' compensation, which pays medical bills and part of lost wages whether or not anyone was at fault, and usually rules out suing the employer. A separate claim may be possible against someone else, such as an equipment maker or another company on the site. Reporting deadlines are short, so tell your employer about an injury right away.
Workers compensation lawyers in Hartford
Lawbamba lists 50 workers compensation lawyers with an office in Hartford, Connecticut, the practice area that deals with the workplace injury and OSHA inspection records on this page. These 4 come first in that listing (how the order is set).
Matched by practice area and office location only. These lawyers are not connected to the records on this page and have not reviewed or endorsed it.
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Source: OSHA's Severe Injury Reports, 2015 through November 2025 (loaded November 9, 2026). Employers must report any work-related amputation, loss of an eye or in-patient hospitalization to OSHA within 24 hours. Employer names, addresses and incident descriptions are as OSHA publishes them. A report records an injury, not a finding that the employer broke a rule; OSHA opens an inspection for some reports. The data covers workplaces under federal OSHA. States that run their own OSHA program (such as California, Washington, Michigan, North Carolina and Virginia) are mostly missing, and work-related deaths are reported separately.
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