Severe Workplace Injuries in Waterbury, Connecticut

Sep 28, 2025 · Puris Corporation Hospitalized

An employee was standing on the ground awaiting the lowering of a pipe. After the pipe was lowered to the ground by a skid steer, it rolled and struck the employee's left leg. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured leg.

Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running · Leg(s) · Construction

Sep 13, 2025 · The Platt Brothers and Company Amputation

A employee's left index finger was pulled into a capstan, resulting in a partial amputation.

Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Other finger(s) (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1850526

Aug 9, 2025 · Costco Wholesale Corporation Amputation

An employee was cutting pork ribs using a vertical band saw. The saw blade amputated the tip of his right middle finger.

Struck by running powered equipment (other) · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Retail · OSHA inspection 1843485

Jan 17, 2025 · Carpin Manufacturing, Inc. Amputation

An employee was feeding a strip of steel into a power press when it activated and contacted the injured employee's left hand. The employee suffered amputations of the first two digits of the hand.

Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Other finger(s) (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1798761

Jan 11, 2025 · Wellmore Behavioral Health Hospitalized

An employee slipped on snow-covered stairs outside a parking lot entrance and suffered a broken right ankle. She was hospitalized.

Other fall to lower level · Ankle(s) · Health care and social assistance

Aug 3, 2024 · Waterbury Hospital Hospitalized

On August 3, 2024, an employee was walking in the hallway when they slipped on water and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a strain to their left hamstring.

Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Thigh(s) · Health care and social assistance

Sep 23, 2023 · Sarracco Mechanical Services Hospitalized

An employee was working from the forth rung of an 8-foot step ladder installing radiator covers when the cover began to fall. The employee lost balance and jumped from the ladder, landing on his feet and sustaining a heel fracture.

Other jump to lower level less than 6 feet · Heel(s) · Construction

Aug 29, 2023 · Safespan Platform Systems, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was dismantling a temporary work platform. He turned around to retrieve a hand tool and fell approximately 15 feet from the platform to the ground below. The employee sustained injury to his back, bruising to his ribs, and a laceration to his left bicep.

Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet · Multiple body parts (other) · Manufacturing

Apr 13, 2023 · Luvata Waterbury, Inc. Amputation

An employee was using a gantry crane to move a copper cylinder across a room. As the employee went to stop the cylinder from swaying, the cylinder shifted on its holder and the employee's left little fingertip was crushed between the metal cylinder and the support at the bottom, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1663663

Mar 22, 2022 · Platt & LaBonia Company LLC Amputation

An employee was loading parts in and out of a brake press, which required a hand wand to remove parts after bending the parts to the table. The employee was wearing pullbacks and gloves while cycling the press. The employee reached toward the part for proper placement. The pullbacks stopped the employee's hand, but the metal part hit the employee's middle finger, resulting in a partial amputation.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1589411

Jul 31, 2021 · Rolling Frito-Lay Sales, Limited Partnership Hospitalized

An employee climbed up the side of a product rack to retrieve a case of product from the second tier when they fell and landed on their stomach, resulting in a fractured maxillary face bone, a displaced nasal bone, and a fractured left and right arm.

Other fall to lower level · Multiple body parts (other) · Retail

May 2, 2021 · Jetro Holdings, LLC Hospitalized

An employee was working in the aisle stocking items when a forklift was leaving the receiving department. The forklift hit the employee in the stock aisle and pinned them against the shelving unit. The employee sustained a broken ankle and a ruptured liver.

Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area · Multiple body parts (other) · Wholesale trade · OSHA inspection 1530490

Dec 5, 2019 · Hartford Healthcare Hospitalized

A nurse had just completed a home visit and was walking through a parking lot to her car. She slipped on a patch of ice and fell onto her right side, suffering a broken right tibia and fibula.

Fall on same level due to slipping · Lower leg(s) · Health care and social assistance

Nov 1, 2018 · CRST Dedicated Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was stepping out of a tractor when he fell forward, striking his head on the pavement. He suffered a gash on top of his head (requiring staples), swelling on his brain, a concussion, and memory problems.

Other fall to lower level · Brain · Transportation and warehousing

Oct 3, 2018 · MANSFIELD PAPER CO. INC. Hospitalized

On October 3, 2018, an employee was delivering paper to a customer when he fell off the back of a truck, landing on the ground and breaking his pelvis and legs.

Other fall to lower level · Multiple body parts (other) · Wholesale trade · OSHA inspection 1369872

Aug 9, 2018 · U.S. Postal Service Amputation

Three employees were lowering a desk to the ground when the desk fell, crushing one of the employee's right index fingers between the bottom of the desk and a metal floor-mounted outlet box. As a result, his right index fingertip was amputated between the nail and first knuckle.

Struck by falling object or equipment (other) · Fingertip(s) · Transportation and warehousing

Apr 18, 2018 · C. Folsom Company LLC Hospitalized

An employee was operating a roller to roll the asphalt near a handicap post and sign. He pressed the vibration button while moving at around 1 to 2 miles an hour. The roller then drifted to the right, closer to the sign. As he neared the post, his hand was sliced by the sign.

Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Hand(s) · Construction

Mar 28, 2018 · Rent A Center Hospitalized

An employee lowered a truck lift gate to unloading the trailer at a store. He was pulling a table to the back (end) of the trailer when the table became caught on a stirrup, causing him to trip/fall and strike his jaw. He suffered a fractured jaw and was hospitalized.

Fall on same level due to tripping (other) · Jaw, chin · Real estate and rental

Mar 14, 2018 · Luvata Waterbury, Inc. Amputation

An employee was operating a die stringer machine when his right hand entered the area between the die holder and the capstan. A wire then pulled the employee's middle fingertip, resulting in an amputation. The area between the die holder and the capstan was unguarded at the time of the incident.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1303893

Mar 9, 2018 · I81 Constructors Hospitalized

An employee was shoveling snow, went on a break and collapsed from a possible heart attack after returning from the break.

Multiple types of overexertion involving outside sources · Heart · Construction

Dec 23, 2017 · Prospect Waterbury Health Hospitalized

On December 23, 2017, an employee parked between two vehicles and opened her vehicle door. When she put her left foot on the ground, it slid on ice and went under the vehicle parallel to hers. She then fell and fractured her left tibia and left fibula, requiring hospitalization.

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Lower leg(s) · Health care and social assistance

Dec 4, 2017 · JOANN Hospitalized

An employee was hospitalized after breaking her index finger in a car door.

Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Retail

Jun 26, 2017 · ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL Hospitalized

An employee fell and broke a leg after a patient fell on the employee.

Injury by other person-unintentional or intent unknown · Leg(s) · Health care and social assistance

Oct 22, 2016 · Frontier Communications Hospitalized

While he was descending outdoor concrete stairs at a customer's premises, and the employee's knee gave out. He fell to the ground and tore his left and right quadriceps.

Other fall to lower level · Thigh(s) · Information

Jan 27, 2016 · Gem Manufacturing Company, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee's finger was pinned between a machine part and the frame of the machine. The employee was hospitalized and received treatment for crushing injuries.

Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Manufacturing

Nov 23, 2015 · I-84 Constructors J.V. Hospitalized

On or about 11/23/15, at approximately 10 p.m., an employee walking on the jobsite was struck in the chest by the arm and bucket of an excavator. The employee was hospitalized with a bruised heart.

Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle · Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders · Construction