Severe Workplace Injuries in Springfield, Massachusetts
Employers in Springfield reported 61 severe work injuries to OSHA from 2015 through November 2025: 50 workers hospitalized and 11 amputations (18% of reports). Manufacturing accounts for the most reports. OSHA opened an inspection after 21 of them.
Reports by year
Industries
How workers were hurt
Parts of the body injured
OSHA inspections in Springfield since 2015
Workplace safety inspectors opened 426 inspections at Springfield workplaces, and 240 of them (56%) ended with at least one violation. Inspectors cited 531 serious, 5 willful and 38 repeat violations, with current penalties totaling $1,442,508.
Rules cited most often:
Recent inspections with penalties
| Employer | Violations | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| Mjt Home Improvements, Inc. (complaint, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $4,965 |
| Jnl Construction, Inc. (complaint, details) | 3 (2 serious+) | $7,944 |
| Bear Pro Exteriors LLC (planned, details) | 5 (5 serious+) | $14,186 |
| Poly-Metal Finishing, Inc. (planned, details) | 2 (1 serious+) | $3,310 |
| Falvey Linen Supply, Inc. (referral, details) | 4 | $10,000 |
| Zion Masonry, Inc. (complaint, details) | 5 (1 serious+) | $2,837 |
| Zion Masonry, Inc. (referral, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $4,965 |
| Station Glo Of New England (referral, details) | 3 (2 serious+) | $12,767 |
| Jv And Son General Construction LLC (referral, details) | 6 (6 serious+) | $6,000 |
| Awg Construction Corp (referral, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $1,987 |
| Universal Tool Co Inc. (planned, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $3,476 |
| The Duc-Pac Corporation (referral, details) | 2 (1 serious+) | $4,965 |
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 Springfield employers, as OSHA published them.
Nov 25, 2025 · Penske Truck Leasing Corporation Hospitalized
An employee was delivering a truck to a site location. He was removing his things from the truck when he fell off the steps and landed on the ground. The employee sustained fractures to his arm, elbow, and wrist.
Other fall to lower level · Multiple upper extremities locations (other) · Real estate and rental
Nov 12, 2025 · Doncasters Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was unstrapping a bundle of steel. When the straps released, the smallest of the steel bars fell off the rack and landed on the employee's right foot. The foot was fractured and the employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
Struck by other falling object (other) · Foot (feet), toe(s) · Manufacturing
Sep 29, 2025 · CVS Hospitalized
An employee was walking to their car after work. They tripped over a concrete parking stop and fell in the parking lot. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Brain · Retail
Sep 3, 2025 · BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER Hospitalized
An employee was redirecting a patient who was leaving the unit when the patient pushed the employee to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a left hip injury.
Hitting, kicking, beating by other person while providing medical or custodial care · Hip joint(s) · Health care and social assistance
Sep 2, 2025 · Astro Chemicals, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was cleaning a formic acid hose with water when formic acid splashed his right shoulder, both arms, and his face under his face shield. He was hospitalized.
Exposure through intact tissue · Head and extremities · Wholesale trade · OSHA inspection 1848110
Jul 7, 2025 · Yellowstone Landscape Hospitalized
A three-person crew was trimming trees at an apartment building. The injured employee was cutting an attached limb at ground level. The limb fell and struck the employee on the back, causing him to fall to the ground. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs.
Struck by other falling object (other) · Rib(s), oblique area · Administrative, staffing and waste services
May 30, 2025 · BAYSTATE Health, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee slipped on the mopped floor and fell. The employee was hospitalized with lower back pain and a bulging lumbar disc.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Back lumbar region · Health care and social assistance
Apr 21, 2025 · W.H. Group LLC Hospitalized
An employee was assembling a conveyor when he slipped off a ladder and fell approximately 6 feet to the ground. The employee sustained a back injury.
Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feet · Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back · Manufacturing
Oct 10, 2024 · BAYSTATE HEALTH, INC. Hospitalized
On October 10, 2024, an employee was deep cleaning operating rooms and were exposed to disinfection cleaner, resulting in an acute environmental asthma exacerbation. The employee was hospitalized.
Inhalation of harmful substance single episode or single shift · Body systems · Health care and social assistance · OSHA inspection 1781451
May 23, 2024 · Big Y Foods, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was readying an electric pallet jack when his ankle was caught between the moving pallet jack and a wall. The employee sustained broken bones in a foot and was hospitalized.
Collision with stationary object, nonroadway · Foot (feet), toe(s) · Retail · OSHA inspection 1751823
Jan 18, 2024 · Revelare Kitchens LLC Hospitalized
On January 18, 2024, an employee sustained head and neck injuries after falling down a staircase at a customer's home.
Other fall to lower level · Head and neck · Construction
Oct 3, 2023 · Performance Foodservice, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was moving product with a pallet jack in the loading area. As he was walking behind the pallet jack, he fell on the floor and broke his leg.
Fall on same level · Leg(s) · Wholesale trade
May 11, 2023 · U.S. Postal Service Hospitalized
An employee was moving equipment when it fell and struck the employee's leg. They were hospitalized.
Struck by object or equipment · Leg(s) · Transportation and warehousing · OSHA inspection 1675951
May 1, 2023 · TForce Freight, Inc Hospitalized
An employee was hospitalized with a broken hip after falling from a truck lift gate.
Other fall to lower level · Hip(s) · Transportation and warehousing
Oct 23, 2022 · Pride Stores, LLC Hospitalized
A clerk was shot by a customer.
Shooting by other person-intentional · Nonclassifiable · Retail · OSHA inspection 1631096
Oct 1, 2022 · Texas Roadhouse Amputation
An employee was cutting chicken when his left thumb tip was amputated by the knife.
Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Fingertip(s) · Hotels and restaurants
Sep 26, 2022 · WM RECYCLE AMERICA, L.L.C. Hospitalized
On September 26, 2022, an employee was on a step ladder to adjust a belt tail pulley on a commingle machine. Momentum from the adjustment caused the employee to slip on the ladder. He attempted to brace himself and his arm was pulled into the machine's rotating belt. The employee sustained a degloving injury and fracture to the right forearm, as well as a dislocation of the right shoulder.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Shoulder(s) and arm(s) · Administrative, staffing and waste services · OSHA inspection 1625033
Sep 26, 2022 · U.S. Postal Service Hospitalized
An employee was hospitalized with a collapsed lung after pulling heavy mail transport equipment.
Overexertion in pushing, pulling, or turning-single episode · Chest, except internal location of diseases or disorders · Transportation and warehousing
Apr 20, 2022 · EnviroGreen LLC Hospitalized
An employee was stepping off a lift and onto a roof. He stepped on a glass panel and fell through the roof a distance of roughly 20 feet. The employee sustained injuries to his back and legs. The employee was wearing fall protection but it was not connected to an anchoring point at the time of the fall.
Fall through surface or existing opening 16 to 20 feet · Multiple body parts (other) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1591135
Jan 6, 2022 · HAMPTON FARMS Hospitalized
An employee slipped on ice between two buildings and fell, landing on an icy curb and suffering a broken right ankle. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.
Fall on same level due to slipping · Ankle(s) · Manufacturing
Dec 9, 2021 · Solutia Inc. Hospitalized
An employee stepped out of their work truck, slipped on black ice, and fell resulting in a fracture to their L1 vertebra.
Fall on same level due to slipping · Lumbar region · Manufacturing
Oct 27, 2021 · American Builders and Contractors Supply Co., Inc. Hospitalized
On October 27, 2021, two employees were assembling a shelving unit with a co-worker. A boom attachment on the top shelf of the racking fell down as the two employees were pulling on the crossbar to lower one of the shelves in the middle of the rack. The boom fell and hit the crossbar, jamming it in an employee's left collar bone and chest. The cross bar then fell and landed on the other employee's feet, resulting in a fracture and hospitalization.
Struck by falling object or equipment (other) · Foot (feet) · Wholesale trade · OSHA inspection 1561572
Nov 24, 2020 · BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER Hospitalized
An employee slipped and fell on black ice in a parking lot, fracturing his left tibia and fibula.
Fall on same level due to slipping · Lower leg(s) · Health care and social assistance
May 26, 2020 · Eversource Hospitalized
An employee was positioning a utility pole on a trailer when the pole made contact with the employee's foot, causing a foot injury.
Contact with objects and equipment · Foot (feet) · Utilities
Feb 12, 2020 · J F WHITE CONTRACTING COMPANY Hospitalized
An employee was operating a crane with a clamshell bucket attachment. The anti-two-block device came free from the main line and fell into the operator's cab after bouncing down the boom. The employee suffered a broken right arm and a major contusion of the right thigh. He was hospitalized.
Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part · Arm(s) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1463007
Feb 5, 2020 · General Mechanical Contractors, Inc. Hospitalized
At about 1:00 p.m. on February 5, 2020, an employee was disassembling a 40-gallon water expansion tank to scrap it. Pressurized air from a bladder in the tank discharged when a flange bolt was removed, causing the flange to strike and injure the employee's face.
Struck by dislodged flying object, particle · Face · Construction
Dec 11, 2019 · Health New England, Inc Hospitalized
An employee was walking down a flight of stairs carrying packages from the mailroom when the employee missed the last step and fell to the hard stairwell surface. The employee was hospitalized with a ruptured quadriceps tendon.
Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Thigh(s) · Finance and insurance
Nov 8, 2019 · Blue Tarp Redevelopment, LLC Hospitalized
Two employees were carrying a large pot of hot fish stock, each holding one handle of the pot with both hands. One of them tripped on the leg of a shelf and fell and the stock spilled from the pot, splashing him. He suffered burns to the right arm and the right side of the lower back.
Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Multiple body parts (other) · Hotels and restaurants
May 28, 2019 · Super Brush, LLC Amputation
On May 28, 2019, an employee was attempting to clear a jam from a foam swab machine when the employee's right hand was caught between the chain and sprocket, resulting in a middle fingertip amputation. The machine was guarded and not locked out at the time of the incident.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1404893
Apr 10, 2019 · UPS GROUND FREIGHT, INC. Amputation
A dock plate got stuck while being deployed into a trailer. While an employee was getting it loose, it caught on his glove and slammed down onto his right index finger, causing an amputation.
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Transportation and warehousing
After a workplace injury in Massachusetts
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 Springfield
Lawbamba lists 23 workers compensation lawyers with an office in Springfield, Massachusetts, 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).
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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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