Severe Workplace Injuries in Brooklyn, New York

Nov 5, 2025 · POWER MECHANICAL INC Hospitalized

An employee was performing combustion tuning on a customer's natural gas fired boiler when they observed an irregularity in gas flow behavior within the gas train. A flash combustion event then occurred, resulting in burns to the employee's hands and face.

Contact with hot objects or substances · Head and extremities · Real estate and rental

Nov 3, 2025 · Venture Solar Hospitalized

An employee was installing solar panels on a roof when they slipped and fell approximately 28 feet to the concrete surface, He was hospitalized with facial injuries and a fractured left arm.

Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feet · Arm(s) · Utilities · OSHA inspection 1858170

Oct 30, 2025 · NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn Hospitalized

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

Other fall to lower level · Multiple body parts (other) · Health care and social assistance

Sep 29, 2025 · U.S. Postal Service Amputation

An employee was closing the back door of a postal tractor trailer when their right ring fingertip was pinched, resulting in an amputation.

Struck by door, gate, window · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Transportation and warehousing

Sep 20, 2025 · Barclays Center Hospitalized

An employee was rolling two stacked trunks (on wheels) toward a forklift during load-in for a concert. The trunks toppled over and struck the employee, resulting in hospitalization with fractures to their nose and femur.

Struck by other falling object (other) · Head and extremities · Arts, entertainment and recreation

Aug 21, 2025 · Menorah Home and Hospital for the Aged and Infirm Hospitalized

An employee was on a ladder checking the fuel level in an oil tank. As they started to descend the ladder, the ladder slid across the fuel tank and the employee slipped and fell off the ladder. Their right little finger was caught between the ladder and a metal stanchion when the ladder struck the floor. The employee sustained an avulsion to their right little finger and a laceration and abrasion to their right arm.

Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment · Other finger(s) (other) · Health care and social assistance

Aug 21, 2025 · NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn Hospitalized

An employee was walking down the stairs when they misstepped and fell in the stairwell, fracturing their left ankle. They ended up on the floor landing.

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

Aug 20, 2025 · NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Bay Ridge Hospitalized

An employee was walking down the hallway when their leg gave out and they lost their balance and fell to the floor, resulting in a left hip fracture.

Fall on same level (other) · Hip joint(s) · Health care and social assistance

Aug 9, 2025 · Tully - NUCO JV LLC. Hospitalized

An employee was chipping paint from the structure of a train track. An electric arc flash, caused by a passing train, burned the employee.

Exposure to electric arc · Part of body · Construction · OSHA inspection 1843303

Jul 29, 2025 · Big Indie Omega, Inc Hospitalized

An employee was dismantling a film set. He was standing on top of a wooden beam when he lost his balance and fell approximately 10 feet to the ground below, striking his head on a standing light. He sustained injuries to his head, torso, and shoulders. A guardrail was in place at the time of the injury.

Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feet · Multiple body parts (other) · Information · OSHA inspection 1840524

Jul 19, 2025 · St. Stanislaus Kostka Church Hospitalized

An employee was preparing meals in a kitchen when an object struck their head, resulting in a laceration to the head and a swollen right eye. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery for a brain injury.

Event or exposure · Brain · Other services

Jun 23, 2025 · Losardo General Contracting Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was preparing the area around a skylight on the roof when the fire safety mechanism of the skylight failed. The skylight swung open and struck him. He fell down on the roof. He sustained injuries to his neck, shoulder, back, and arm.

Struck by door, gate, window · Multiple body parts (other) · Construction

Jun 3, 2025 · VNS Health: Sunset Park Community Center Hospitalized

An employee was bending down when he suffered an abdominal strain and was hospitalized.

Twisting, reaching, bending · Abdomen · Health care and social assistance

May 3, 2025 · Able Rigging Contractors Amputation

An employee was breaking down a tower crane and removing the boom. His right hand was crushed between the boom as it was being lowered and the crane's turntable. The employee sustained a crushing injury to their hand and the amputation of the index finger.

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Other finger(s) (other) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1823283

Apr 24, 2025 · Brooklyn Union Gas Hospitalized

An employee was installing a metal plug into a machine. He was using a wrench to turn the metal plug a quarter turn more when the round plug weighing approximately 2 pounds failed and blew off from pressure, striking the employee in the face. The employee sustained facial lacerations and a fractured jaw.

Struck by discharged object or substance · Jaw, chin · Construction

Apr 22, 2025 · The Home Depot U.S.A, Inc Hospitalized

An employee was removing a pallet of faucets from a bay area when a shrink-wrapped pallet containing approximately 25 air conditioning units fell and struck the employee. The employee sustained multiple injuries to various parts of the body and was hospitalized.

Struck by other falling object (other) · Multiple body parts · Retail · OSHA inspection 1820118

Apr 18, 2025 · Action Carting Environmental Services Inc. Amputation

An employee was lifting a 2-yard container to dump it into a truck when the container shifted and crushed the employee's left hand against the side of the truck, resulting in an open fracture and dislocation that required hospitalization and the surgical amputation of the little finger.

Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Other finger(s) (other) · Administrative, staffing and waste services

Apr 6, 2025 · Chartwells Higher Education Hospitalized

An employee was serving hot food when a tray flipped over into hot water. The water spilled out onto the employee's feet and burned them.

Contact with hot objects or substances · Foot (feet), toe(s) · Hotels and restaurants

Apr 2, 2025 · Billie-Ann Plastics Packaging Corp. Amputation

An employee was operating a thermoforming machine when their fingers became caught in the cutting section and the employee sustained amputation of three fingers.

Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation · Other finger(s) (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1816375

Mar 30, 2025 · GoGo Bus Tours Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was operating a paratransit bus when the car driving ahead of them suddenly stopped short, causing the employee to suddenly stop the bus. It is not known if the vehicles contacted each other. Two people got out of the car and began to argue with the employee, then went back to their car and got a metal pipe. The employee exited the bus to inspect it for damage. The two people then assaulted the employee with the metal pipe. The employee was hospitalized with a skull fracture.

Hitting, kicking, beating by other person (other) · Skull · Administrative, staffing and waste services

Feb 21, 2025 · Galaxy GC Group, LLC Hospitalized

An employee was operating a garbage truck's controls. A box truck struck roadway barricades that then struck the employee who sustained cuts and bruises to the head and chest.

Pedestrian struck by vehicle or object propelled by another vehicle location · Head and trunk · Construction · OSHA inspection 1809985

Feb 13, 2025 · Structural Preservation Systems, LLC Hospitalized

A 20-foot long pipe was being unloaded from a delivery truck. The pipe rolled off and struck an employee, fracturing their right leg.

Struck by other falling object (other) · Leg(s) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1804402

Jan 10, 2025 · Dura-Lift Elevator Amputation

An employee was inspecting an elevator issue in the machine room when their hand became caught in an elevator cable pinch point. The employee sustained an amputation to four fingers on left hand.

Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Other finger(s) (other) · Other services · OSHA inspection 1797912

Jan 6, 2025 · NY Embroidery Studio Amputation

An employee's hand was caught in a machine. Four of the employee's fingers, and half of the fifth, were amputated.

Struck by running powered equipment · Other finger(s) (other) · Manufacturing · OSHA inspection 1797046

Dec 12, 2024 · JCC Construction Corp. Amputation

An employee was placing a prefabricated structure onto stanchions. As he was tapping the structure with a hammer to align it with the stanchions, his left thumb and index finger were crushed underneath the structure. The employee sustained an amputation to the fingers and was hospitalized.

Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning · Thumb(s) and finger(s) · Construction

Dec 10, 2024 · Premier Construction Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was working on a roof. He held onto two scaffold pipes when he suffered an electrical shock and fell on his back onto the roof surface, resulting in a dislocated and fractured shoulder and right wrist.

Fall on same level (other) · Shoulder(s) and wrist(s) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1794546

Nov 18, 2024 · Trevcon Construction Company LLC Hospitalized

On November 18, 2024, at approximately 1:50 PM, a pile driving crew was setting pile using a vibratory hammer. The hammer and the pile were approximately 105 feet tall. An employee was positioned approximately 30 feet away on the falsework, spotting the pile during the vibration process. A piece of the steel pile broke off near the top and struck the employee on the left side of his head and his left shoulder, resulting in a laceration to the side of his head. The employee was hospitalized and required stitches.

Struck by dislodged or detached object(s) · Head · Construction

Nov 11, 2024 · Tully Construction Co., Inc. Hospitalized

An employee stepped on pipe scaffolding bracing and the bracing failed, causing them to fall and suffer a broken ankle.

Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment · Ankle(s) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1787879

Nov 1, 2024 · Pick Quick Foods Inc. Amputation

An employee was using a bandsaw to cut a piece of pork rib belly when his fingers contacted the blade. The employee sustained a laceration on his right middle finger and an amputated right index finger.

Struck by running powered equipment (other) · Other finger(s) (other) · Retail

Oct 21, 2024 · City Recycling Corp. Hospitalized

An employee was operating an excavator on top of an unprocessed pile of construction and demolition waste. The machine tipped over and the employee suffered a back injury.

Nonroadway noncollision vehicle overturn · Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back · Administrative, staffing and waste services