Severe Workplace Injuries in Charleston, West Virginia

Jul 29, 2025 · West Virginia Army National Guard Hospitalized

An employee was climbing over a bunkbed when they fell onto the bedpost. The employee was hospitalized with an abdominal injury.

Fall on same level resulting in exposure or contact · Pelvic region · Public administration

Mar 25, 2025 · GMB Power Line Services Hospitalized

An employee was using a ballpeen hammer to hit a metal stud. A metal shard broke off from the stud and hit the employee's left eye. The employee was hospitalized for surgery, but did not lose their eye.

Struck by dislodged or detached object(s) · Eye(s) · Transportation and warehousing

Oct 16, 2024 · CJ Hughes Construction Company, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was performing housekeeping tasks when they were struck on the right shoulder by a mini excavator bucket, causing the employee to fall forward and strike the asphalt in front of him. The employed sustained a frontal lobe brain bleed, fractures to their right shoulder, orbital bone, and nose, as well as a forehead laceration.

Struck by running powered equipment (other) · Head and extremities · Construction

Jul 1, 2024 · Casto Technical Services Hospitalized

An employee was unbending a hose to clean the coils on an HVAC unit when he fell 45 feet from the roof to the ground below. The employee sustained fractures to lumbar vertebrae and an ankle.

Other fall to lower level more than 30 feet · Trunk and other lower extremities · Construction · OSHA inspection 1759050

Apr 23, 2024 · General Corporation Hospitalized

An employee was moving a piece of steel. While he was walking he was struck in the head with a piece of steel and knocked to the ground. He sustained a head injury.

Contact incidents · Head · Construction

Apr 5, 2024 · Mountaineer Gas Company Amputation

An employee was opening a manual security gate when his left little finger became caught in the gate, resulting in a partial amputation.

Struck by door, gate, window · Other finger(s) (other) · Utilities

Mar 17, 2024 · Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was walking to a patient room with a meal tray when their knee gave out and they fell to the ground, fracturing their left femur.

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

Feb 21, 2024 · Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee slipped and fell to the floor of the operating room. The employee was hospitalized for surgery to repair a fractured ankle.

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

Jul 25, 2023 · Pinnacle Design/Build Group Amputation

An employee was removing and replacing a drill steel when their left little finger was caught between the drill steel and the clamp, resulting in amputation.

Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects · Finger(s), fingernail(s) · Construction

Mar 8, 2023 · Pillar Energy LLC Hospitalized

A well tender was working on a gas pipeline when gas ignited. The employee sustained burns to their face.

Ignition of vapors, gases, or liquids · Face · Mining, oil and gas

Feb 22, 2023 · Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was pushing a housekeeping cart when it collided with a dietary cart, causing the employee to fall and strike her head on the wall. The employee was hospitalized for a left hip injury and a concussion.

Fall on same level (other) · Brain · Health care and social assistance

Jan 31, 2023 · GMB Power Line Services Hospitalized

An employee was reviewing paperwork that was placed on the front bumper of a digger truck when a skid steer backed over the employee's left foot. The employee sustained multiple foot fractures.

Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Foot (feet) · Transportation and warehousing

Nov 9, 2022 · Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee was walking behind a machine when they tripped over the cord and fell to the floor, resulting in a femur fracture.

Fall on same level due to tripping over an object · Thigh(s) · Health care and social assistance

Nov 8, 2022 · Baum America Corporation Amputation

An employee was placing a pipe into a pipe flaring machine when the vice clamp was activated. The employee's fingers became caught, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation.

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

Oct 26, 2022 · Penske Truck Leasing Hospitalized

An employee fell from a lift gate to the ground, resulting in a broken hip.

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Hip(s) · Transportation and warehousing

Aug 18, 2022 · Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. Hospitalized

Two employee's bumped into each other in a warehouse. One fell and suffered a broken left hip.

Injury by other person-unintentional or intent unknown (other) · Hip(s) · Health care and social assistance · OSHA inspection 1617106

Aug 15, 2022 · Kroger Limited Partnership 1 Amputation

An employee's right middle finger entered a grinder and was amputated at the first knuckle.

Caught in running equipment or machinery · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Retail · OSHA inspection 1614916

Apr 5, 2022 · United Dairy, Inc. Hospitalized

A maintenance employee was leaning on the stacking machine holding a flashlight for another maintenance employee when the machine activated. The employee's elbow was caught by the stacking machine resulting in contusions to the elbow.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Elbow(s) · Wholesale trade · OSHA inspection 1588946

Sep 28, 2021 · Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee has a known allergy to chemically made cinnamon. The employee smelled cinnamon on a coworker and had a severe reaction. The employee was hospitalized.

Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode · Body systems · Health care and social assistance

Aug 3, 2021 · SCHNEIDER NATIONAL CARRIERS, INC. Hospitalized

An employee slipped while leaving the cab of a tractor-trailer, falling backward to the ground and suffering a broken elbow.

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Elbow(s) · Transportation and warehousing

Apr 14, 2021 · AM Communications LTD Hospitalized

An employee fell off a ladder while repairing a drop line. The employee landed on blacktop and suffered hip and skull fractures, a sprained left arm, and a gash over an eye.

Other fall to lower level · Head and trunk · Information

Jul 20, 2020 · CAMC Memorial Hospital Hospitalized

An employee was cleaning an empty hospital room using a cleaner with bleach. He developed breathing problems after inhaling the bleach fumes and was hospitalized.

Inhalation of harmful substance-single episode · Body systems · Health care and social assistance

Apr 10, 2020 · United Dairy Amputation

A valve on a tanker truck actuated while an employee was putting in a part. It amputated about 1/8 inch of the employee's fingertip.

Caught in running equipment or machinery · Fingertip(s) · Manufacturing

Apr 4, 2020 · Todd Judy Ford Amputation

An employee was mowing grass. The employee slipped and his left foot went under the mower deck, where the mower blade amputated his big toe and second toe.

Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Toes(s), toenail(s) · Retail · OSHA inspection 1471822

Mar 11, 2020 · Charleston Labcorp Hospitalized

Earlier in the day the injured employee was visiting a client and had tripped on the curb, injuring his shoulder. A few hours later while at the office, he began to feel ill. The employee passed out and landed on the floor in an awkward position resulting in a fractured left foot and a dislocated left ankle. The employee was hospitalized.

Fall on same level (other) · Foot (feet) and ankle(s) · Health care and social assistance

Nov 14, 2019 · Harris Brothers Roofing Company, Inc. Hospitalized

An employee fell through a loose board on the deck of a flat, metal roof, landing on the concrete floor 14 feet below. The fall resulted in a fracture.

Fall through surface or existing opening 11 to 15 feet · Nonclassifiable · Construction · OSHA inspection 1445992

Oct 7, 2019 · Metro Masonry Inc. Amputation

An employee was helping to operate a hoist used to raise stone to an elevated work area. The employee grabbed the cable on the hoist to help guide a lift when his finger went into the pulley. The employee sustained an injury to his left pinky finger that required an amputation at the first joint below the nail.

Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Finger(s), fingernail(s) (other) · Construction · OSHA inspection 1444880

Sep 19, 2019 · Amedisys West Virginia, LLC Hospitalized

An employee walking towards a patient's home stepped onto a curb, tripped and fell. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured left arm, and pain in the left shoulder, elbow and knee.

Fall on same level while climbing stairs, steps, or curbs · Arm(s) · Health care and social assistance

Jul 2, 2019 · Habitat for Humanity of Kanawha & Putnam Hospitalized

An employee leaned out a doorway and fell 15 feet to the ground after the temporary safety railing failed. The employee was hospitalized for fractures to the hip, pelvis, ribs, and sternum as well as head lacerations.

Other fall to lower level 11 to 15 feet · Multiple trunk locations · Construction

Mar 5, 2019 · CAMC WOMENS & CHILDRENS HOSPITAL Hospitalized

On March 5, 2019, an employee slipped on grass and fell fracture an ankle.

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