Severe Workplace Injuries in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Employers in Pittsburgh reported 362 severe work injuries to OSHA from 2015 through November 2025: 327 workers hospitalized and 44 amputations (12% of reports). Construction accounts for the most reports. OSHA opened an inspection after 61 of them.
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How workers were hurt
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OSHA inspections in Pittsburgh since 2015
Workplace safety inspectors opened 2,023 inspections at Pittsburgh workplaces, and 879 of them (43%) ended with at least one violation. Inspectors cited 1,676 serious, 9 willful and 35 repeat violations, with current penalties totaling $4,034,782.
Rules cited most often:
Recent inspections with penalties
| Employer | Violations | Penalty |
|---|---|---|
| Terry's Plumbing (complaint, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $3,376 |
| Bane Masonry Inc (planned, details) | 2 (1 serious+) | $1,100 |
| Shallenberger Management West, Inc. (complaint, details) | 2 (2 serious+) | $2,870 |
| W Remodeling, Cleaning And Roofing (planned, details) | 3 (2 serious+) | $4,341 |
| Vallip Roofing & Contracting, LLC (planned, details) | 3 (3 serious+) | $1,000 |
| Graphics 22 Signs, Inc. (planned, details) | 1 (1 serious+) | $900 |
| Saenz Construction LLC (planned, details) | 7 (5 serious+) | $7,946 |
| Lucan Roof LLC (planned, details) | 4 (4 serious+) | $8,512 |
| Jm3 Construction LLC (planned, details) | 6 (6 serious+) | $11,349 |
| South Hills Country Club (planned, details) | 4 (4 serious+) | $9,000 |
| Morales Restoration LLC (planned, details) | 3 (2 serious+) | $3,858 |
| Diamond Wire Spring Company (planned, details) | 7 (4 serious+) | $4,000 |
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 Pittsburgh employers, as OSHA published them.
Nov 18, 2025 · Target Hospitalized
An employee was on an A-frame ladder in the storeroom. As she was climbing down, she fell to the concrete floor below, resulting in fractures to her left arm and leg that required hospitalization.
Other fall to lower level · Upper and lower extremities (other) · Retail
Oct 29, 2025 · Triad Metals International Hospitalized
A load of steel angles was being lowered when the lifting chain hit the load, causing it to slide toward an employee. An angle slid and pinched the employee, catching both of their legs between the beams and an angle. The employee suffered two fractured legs.
Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running · Leg(s) · Wholesale trade
Oct 29, 2025 · Metz Culinary Management LLC Hospitalized
An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Multiple mouth locations · Hotels and restaurants
Oct 23, 2025 · Aveanna Healthcare Hospitalized
An employee was seated in the living room of a patient's residence, waiting for the patient to arrive home from school. The school bus driver honked the horn, signaling that the patient was ready to be assisted off the bus. The employee stood up and then tripped and fell over a rug and possibly the edge of an ottoman. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right humerus at the shoulder.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Shoulder(s), clavicle(s), scapula(e) · Health care and social assistance
Oct 21, 2025 · Elevation Greenroofs LLC Hospitalized
An employee was moving material using a dolly. Her foot slipped while adjusting her hand, causing her to fall and sustain a fractured left leg.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Leg(s) · Construction
Oct 20, 2025 · DoorDash Essentials LLC Hospitalized
An employee was manually moving a tall cart filled with pints of ice cream within the facility. While transferring the cart toward the exterior of the receiving area, the cart passed over a floor drainage grate, became unstable, and fell toward the employee, pinning him underneath. The cart and its contents landed on his lower right leg, resulting in multiple fractures.
Struck by object tipping over · Lower leg(s) · Information
Sep 23, 2025 · R.C. Enterprise Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was doing masonry work near a foundation wall. The platform he was standing on collapsed and he fell approximately 7 feet to the ground below. The employee sustained fractured ribs.
Fall to lower level from collapsing structure or equipment 6 to 30 feet · Rib(s), oblique area · Construction
Sep 19, 2025 · Triple Crown Electric Hospitalized
On September 19, 2025, an employee was working from a 6-foot stepladder with a work platform, working on an overhead electrical junction box. He fell from the ladder, landed on his shoulder/head on the concrete floor, and suffered a broken collarbone as well as a brain bleed that required surgery. The employee was hospitalized.
Other fall to lower level · Brain · Construction
Sep 8, 2025 · Pittsburgh Specialty Dairy Hospitalized
An employee was cleaning out a butter fat tank. The employee slipped and fell, suffering a broken right leg.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Leg(s) · Manufacturing
Sep 4, 2025 · All Crane Rental of Pennsylvania Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was reeving the main cable on the drum of a crane. The reeving line began to take the weight of the block and pulled the boom down. The employee was standing on a ladder with a 4"x6" piece of wood to keep the reeving cable from sliding across the boom lacings. When the boom pulled down, the employee's right thumb and index finger were pinched between the block of wood and the top of the a-frame ladder he was standing on. The employee suffered an open wound on the thumb and a fracture to the right index finger. The employee was hospitalized.
Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning · Thumb(s) and finger(s) · Construction
Aug 14, 2025 · Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. Amputation
An employee was raising an electric ladder to retrieve merchandise from overhead racking. As it rose, the railing of the machine caught his right middle finger against the bottom of the high bay netting supports, causing an amputation just below the fingernail.
Compressed between running equipment and other object(s) · Other finger(s) (other) · Retail
Jul 30, 2025 · K & I Sheet Metal, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was moving an aerial lift across the mechanical room when he struck a hanging duct structure. The employee sustained lacerations to the face and a fractured jaw.
Collision with stationary object, nonroadway · Jaw, chin · Construction
Jul 30, 2025 · UPS Hospitalized
A delivery driver was returning to his vehicle when he started having leg cramps. The employee was hospitalized for dehydration.
Exposure to environmental heat outdoor · Body systems · Transportation and warehousing
Jul 17, 2025 · Fi-Hoff Concrete Products, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was moving a precast concrete manhole section and attached rigging to lift it from a flatbed truck using a mounted knuckle boom crane. The employee was using a remote control for the crane when the manhole load shifted and pinched his feet underneath it. The concrete disc swung back and pinned the employee's legs against the truck, resulting in fractures to their leg(s) and both feet.
Struck by suspended or swinging objects (other) · Foot(feet) and leg(s) · Manufacturing
Jul 15, 2025 · Tandem Foods Amputation
On 7/15/2025, a machine operator's finger was partially amputated by a chain and sprocket. There was no loss of bone.
Struck by running powered equipment · Other finger(s) (other) · Manufacturing
Jun 30, 2025 · Aldi, Inc. Pennsylvania Amputation
An employee was moving pallets when a pallet fell onto his ring finger causing a fingertip amputation.
Struck by falling object · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Retail
Jun 12, 2025 · Ward Trucking Hospitalized
A delivery driver was climbing up the ladder of his truck when he slipped off, fell backward, and landed on the right side of his upper back. He suffered a broken right shoulder blade and was hospitalized.
Other fall to lower level · Shoulder(s), clavicle(s), scapula(e) · Transportation and warehousing
Jun 5, 2025 · Rentokil Terminix Hospitalized
An employee was performing pest control services at a residential home when he tripped and fell on the front porch steps. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured wrist, two fractured ribs, and a subdural hematoma.
Slip, trip, stumble while stepping between levels · Brain · Administrative, staffing and waste services
May 21, 2025 · Carnegie Mellon University Hospitalized
An employee was walking down the stairs from the second floor to the first floor when she lost her balance and fell down the stairs. The employee sustained broken ribs.
Other fall to lower level · Rib(s), oblique area · Educational services
Apr 21, 2025 · Scott Electric Company Hospitalized
An employee was using an 8-foot folding ladder to retrieve a 250-foot coil of wrapped wire on a shelf. The employee dropped the wire which struck the ladder, causing the employee to fall from the ladder to the concrete floor. The employee sustained a skull fracture, a right knee fracture, and a rib fracture.
Other fall to lower level · Multiple body parts (other) · Wholesale trade · OSHA inspection 1820309
Mar 14, 2025 · University of Pittsburgh-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education Hospitalized
A groundskeeper was pressure-washing softball stadium bleachers. He fell down two rows of bleachers and suffered a broken left wrist.
Other fall to lower level · Wrist(s) · Educational services
Jan 28, 2025 · Help at Home Hospitalized
An employee was walking on an icy surface when they slipped and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a spinal cord injury.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back · Health care and social assistance
Jan 28, 2025 · Standard Air Hospitalized
An employee was walking beside a forklift when his right foot became caught under the forklift. The employee was hospitalized with injuries to his lower leg and foot.
Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area · Foot(feet) and leg(s) (other) · Wholesale trade · OSHA inspection 1800851
Jan 21, 2025 · Covestro LLC Hospitalized
An employee was walking in the parking lot when they fell to the ground, resulting in a broken leg.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Leg(s) · Manufacturing
Dec 19, 2024 · Willis Americas Administration, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was working as a risk safety consultant on a construction jobsite when they were physically assaulted by a carpenter. The employee was hospitalized with a frontal brain bleed, an orbital fracture under his left eye, a laceration to the back of the head that required three staples, and injuries to their right hand, hip, and back.
Hitting, kicking, beating by other person (other) · Multiple regions of the head · Professional and technical services
Dec 14, 2024 · BJ's Wholesale Club Amputation
An employee was cutting meat with a band saw when the blade amputated their right index fingertip.
Struck by running powered equipment (other) · Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) · Retail
Dec 10, 2024 · Family Home Heatlh Hospitalized
An employee fell while descending stairs, suffering a herniated disk in the neck.
Other fall to lower level · Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the neck · Health care and social assistance
Dec 5, 2024 · Honor Care Network Pennsylvania, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was outside a client's home when they slipped and fell to the ground, resulting in a broken femur.
Fall on same level due to slip or trip · Thigh(s) · Health care and social assistance
Dec 2, 2024 · Frank B. Fuhrer Holdings, Inc. Hospitalized
An employee was loading items onto a pallet on the forks of a forklift when he was struck by another forklift. The employee sustained a fractured leg.
Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area · Leg(s) · Wholesale trade · OSHA inspection 1791509
Nov 29, 2024 · Turner Dairy Farms Amputation
An employee was opening a frozen lift gate and using his right hand to control the gate with his left hand on the gate. The fingers on his left hand were pinched by the lift gate, resulting in amputations to all four fingers from the nail bed up.
Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing · Other finger(s) (other) · Manufacturing
After a workplace injury in Pennsylvania
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 Pittsburgh
Lawbamba lists 141 workers compensation lawyers with an office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 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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