Severe Workplace Injuries in Newark, New Jersey
Employers in Newark reported 126 severe work injuries to OSHA from 2015 through September 2025: 116 workers hospitalized and 23 amputations (18% of reports). Transportation and warehousing accounts for the most reports. OSHA opened an inspection after 37 of them.
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How workers were hurt
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OSHA inspections in Newark since 2015
Workplace safety inspectors opened 919 inspections at Newark workplaces, and 477 of them (52%) ended with at least one violation. Inspectors cited 1,260 serious, 9 willful and 34 repeat violations, with current penalties totaling $6,541,507.
Rules cited most often:
Recent inspections with penalties
| Employer | Violations | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| Northern Regional Medical Examiners Office (complaint, details) | 5 (5 serious+) | $22,100 |
| Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission (referral, details) | 4 (4 serious+) | $28,000 |
| Underground Utilities Corp. (referral, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $35,748 |
| Pse&G (programmed, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $16,550 |
| Trim Star, LLC (referral, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $5,958 |
| Division Of Law (complaint, details) | 2 | $2,000 |
| Solar Landscape, LLC (complaint, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $13,618 |
| Dm Windows LLC (unprogrammed, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $18,536 |
| Reicon Group LLC (complaint, details) | 1 | $8,500 |
| Ferreira Construction Co., Inc. (fatality/catastrophe, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $44,923 |
| Fortex Contractors Corporation (complaint, details) | 5 (5 serious+) | $24,825 |
| Stephen Crane Elderly Apartment Building (complaint, details) | 8 (2 serious+) | $16,000 |
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 Newark employers, as OSHA published them.
Sep 20, 2025 · Reworld Essex Company LLC. Amputation
An employee was working to clear a rotary valve on a pugmill. Two fingertips were amputated by the rotary valve.
Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1853910
Aug 17, 2025 · Graver Technologies. Hospitalized
An employee was in a physical altercation with a colleague when his hip was fractured.
Hitting, kicking, beating by other person (other) · Hip joint(s) · Manufacturing
Jul 21, 2025 · GLN Shop Associates LLC Hospitalized
An employee was cutting watermelon with a knife and lacerated her little finger. She was hospitalized and required surgery.
Injured by object held or wielded by person · Other finger(s) (other) · Retail
Jul 7, 2025 · Gategroup Hospitalized
An employee loaded his truck. The dock plate was stuck under the carrier dolly and he could not lift the dock plate from the side while standing on the dock. The employee entered the truck and pushed the dolly away from the dock plate. This allowed him to lift the plate from inside the truck. While lifting the plate, his body shifted forward, and he fell between the dock and the truck, resulting in a fractured left wrist.
Other fall to lower level · Wrist(s) · Hotels and restaurants
Jul 2, 2025 · NEWARK BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER, INC Hospitalized
An employee was struck by a patient in the chest and fell to the floor, with the patient falling onto them. The employee suffered a head injury.
Hitting, kicking, beating by other person while providing medical or custodial care · Head · Health care and social assistance · OSHA inspection 1838662
Jun 16, 2025 · Federal Express Corporation Amputation
An employee was closing a garage door. As the door slid, the employee's right ring finger was caught in one of its wheel tracks. The fingertip was amputated at the first knuckle.
Struck by door, gate, window · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Transportation and warehousing
Jun 1, 2025 · Darling Ingredients Inc. Amputation
An employee was dumping a hopper into a dumpster when their left middle fingertip was amputated.
Contact incidents · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Manufacturing
May 29, 2025 · NEWARK BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER, INC Hospitalized
An employee was exiting a patient room when she slipped on a liquid that had spilled from a container of sanitizer wipes. She fell on the floor and sustained a fractured left patella. The employee was hospitalized.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Knee(s) · Health care and social assistance
Apr 1, 2025 · TSA - Newark Liberty International Airport Hospitalized
An employee was conducting inspections on the ramp site at the airport when they tripped over a metal bar from a baggage vehicle and fell, landing on their face and left side. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery for fractures to their left orbital bone, nose, and left humerus.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Head and extremities · Transportation and warehousing
Mar 21, 2025 · FedEx Corporation Hospitalized
An employee was assigned to work on both levels (upper and lower) to load and unload pallets. The employee entered the cargo door and stepped onto a roller/loader. The employee was hit by a moving pallet entering the right side of the top load (upper level) of the aircraft. The employee was hospitalized with a broken right foot.
Contact incidents · Foot (feet), toe(s) · Transportation and warehousing · OSHA inspection 1816066
Mar 19, 2025 · Fabuwood Cabinetry Corp Hospitalized
Four employees were manually lifting a 1600-pound battery onto a pallet jack for transport. The battery slipped and fell onto one of the employee's right leg. The employee was hospitalized for fractures to the leg.
Struck by object dropped by person · Leg(s) · Manufacturing
Mar 15, 2025 · G1 Facility Services Hospitalized
An employee was installing an office light panel when they fell from a ladder to the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion.
Other fall to lower level · Brain · Administrative, staffing and waste services
Mar 13, 2025 · United Airlines, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was moving a locker from the back of a pickup truck to another truck. The employee's feet became entangled with security straps, causing him to lose his balance and fall backward from the truck to the ground. The employee sustained a traumatic brain injury.
Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Brain · Transportation and warehousing
Jan 14, 2025 · Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc. Amputation
An employee and a crew were setting up a new utility pole. As the employee was lifting the pole to rotate it, his gloves became entangled between a chain sling and the pole, resulting in a partial amputation of the right index finger and a nondisplaced fracture of the middle finger.
Contact incidents · Other finger(s) (other) · Utilities
Jan 14, 2025 · J.L. Dobbs Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was standing on top of counterweights that were staged at ground level to hook them up to a crane hook. He moved backward and stepped into a rung on the side of the counterweights. He fell backward off the counterweights while his foot was still in the rung, resulting in fractures to his tibia and fibula above the ankle, which required surgery.
Fall on same level (other) · Lower leg(s) · Real estate and rental · OSHA inspection 1799626
Jan 7, 2025 · Choice Aviation Services, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was struck by a forklift, resulting in a lower leg laceration.
Pedestrian struck by vehicle · Lower leg(s) · Transportation and warehousing · OSHA inspection 1799096
Dec 23, 2024 · Devils Arena Entertainment, LLC Amputation
An employee was removing bleachers and separating two units when the front section of bleachers jumped up and caught his right index fingertip. The fingertip was crushed and amputated.
Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Arts, entertainment and recreation
Nov 12, 2024 · Port Newark Container Terminal, LLC Amputation
On November 12, 2024, an employee and a mechanic were fixing a tie rod on a straddle carrier. When the tie rod snapped into position, it pinched the employee's left thumb, resulting in a laceration that required hospitalization and the surgical amputation of the tip of the thumb.
Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Transportation and warehousing
Aug 12, 2024 · Oxford Airport Technical Services Hospitalized
An employee was inspecting a conveyor belt for mechanical issues when his right arm became caught between a roller and the belt. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to his right hand.
Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Hand(s), finger(s) · Transportation and warehousing · OSHA inspection 1769994
Jul 24, 2024 · Rapid Pump & Meter Co., Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was conducting a visual inspection of a pump and possibly using a voltage meter on an electrical panel. An arc flash occurred and the employee sustained second- and third-degree burns to his neck and face, and also sustained burns to his lower arms and hands.
Exposure to electric arc · Multiple body parts (other) · Other services · OSHA inspection 1766023
Jun 29, 2024 · United Airlines Holdings, Inc. Hospitalized
The injured employee was helping to move a baggage cart when they got pinned between two baggage carts and sustained a fractured rib.
Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running · Rib(s), oblique area · Transportation and warehousing
Jun 15, 2024 · Federal Express Corporation Amputation
An employee was turning on a fan that was inside a trailer when the fan blades caused an amputation.
Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Part of body · Transportation and warehousing · OSHA inspection 1756448
Jan 27, 2024 · Feld Motor Sports Inc Hospitalized
A monster truck driver was performing a backflip. The truck did not complete a full rotation and the driver sustained injuries including pain in their chest and right leg, and they were coughing.
Nonroadway noncollision vehicle overturn · Part of body · Arts, entertainment and recreation
Jan 17, 2024 · Saia Motor Freight Line Hospitalized
An employee was helping another employee lift a brake drum onto a forklift. Fifteen minutes after, the injured employee began experiencing stomach pain. The employee was hospitalized with a hernia.
Overexertion while materials moving by hand · Intestines, peritoneum · Transportation and warehousing
Oct 6, 2023 · FedEx Corporation Hospitalized
An employee was operating the controls to a dock bridge for loading containers onto an aircraft. The employee walked away from the control panel toward the aircraft cargo door and fell approximately 20 feet into the gap between the dock bridge and the aircraft. During the fall, the employee's left hand struck a plastic jersey barrier directly beneath the dock bridge, resulting in a left wrist fracture.
Other fall to lower level 16 to 20 feet · Wrist(s) · Transportation and warehousing · OSHA inspection 1709992
Sep 20, 2023 · Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc Amputation
An employee was cutting materials with a table saw and amputated his right index finger.
Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Transportation and warehousing · OSHA inspection 1699283
Aug 24, 2023 · Golden Platter Foods, Inc. Amputation
A mixing machine operator's right finger was partially amputated while they were removing stuck product from the machine.
Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1693736
Jun 23, 2023 · M & M Sanitation Corporation Amputation
A mechanic was adjusting the clutch on the transmission of a garbage truck. He was trying to get a wrench on the nut when his right hand became pinched between the wrench and the transmission bell housing, resulting in amputation of the middle fingertip.
Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Fingertip(s) · Administrative, staffing and waste services
Jun 13, 2023 · Troy Chemical Corporation Hospitalized
While changing the couplings on a pump, an employee was sprayed in the back of the head with a chemical. The employee suffered hypertension caused by the chemical and was hospitalized.
Exposure through intact skin, eyes, or other exposed tissue · Body systems · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1678093
Dec 23, 2022 · United Airlines Hospitalized
An employee was on the top deck of a mobile stair unit, trying to access the main cabin door of an airliner, when a baggage tug began to pull the stair unit away. The employee lost his balance and fell from the top of the unit sustaining multiple broken bones and contusions.
Fall or jump from vehicle in normal operation, nonroadway · Nonclassifiable · Transportation and warehousing · OSHA inspection 1641115
After a workplace injury in New Jersey
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 Newark
Lawbamba lists 17 workers compensation lawyers with an office in Newark, New Jersey, 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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