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687 OSHA severe injury reports in SOUTH DAKOTA.
OSHA Severe Injury Reports Database
Browse 687 workplace severe injury reports with employer names, locations, and incident details. Each report documents a hospitalization, amputation, or eye loss as reported to OSHA. Use the filters below to narrow results.
| Date | Employer | Location | Event | Nature | Body Part | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 2025 | Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. | SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota | Pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area unspecified | Fractures | Ankle(s) and leg(s) n.e.c. | Hospitalized |
| Feb 5, 2025 | Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center | SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota | Exposure to harmful substances unspecified | Anaphylactic shock, anaphylaxis | BODY SYSTEMS | Hospitalized |
| Jan 30, 2025 | Jensen Construction Company | PIERRE, South Dakota | Contact incidents unspecified | Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified | Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) | Amputation |
| Jan 29, 2025 | TrueNorth Steel | HURON, South Dakota | Struck by other falling object n.e.c. | Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified | Multiple lower extremities locations n.e.c. | Hospitalized |
| Jan 15, 2025 | Legacy Healthcare Financial Services | MILBANK, South Dakota | Shooting by other person | Gunshot wounds | Other multiple ear(s), facial locations | Hospitalized |
| Jan 7, 2025 | Dean Kurtz Construction Company | MARTIN, South Dakota | Fall on same level due to slip or trip | Closed trauma involving internal organs, major blood vessels | Multiple internal chest locations | Hospitalized |
| Dec 12, 2024 | Manitou Equipment America, LLC | MADISON, South Dakota | Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation | Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified | Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) | Amputation |
| Dec 8, 2024 | County Fair Food Store | MITCHELL, South Dakota | Fall on same level due to slip or trip | Fractures | Hip joint(s) | Hospitalized |
| Dec 5, 2024 | Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. | SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota | Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing | Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified | Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) | Amputation |
| Nov 25, 2024 | AMTEC Corporation | CLEAR LAKE, South Dakota | Intentionally set explosion | Thermal burns third degree or higher | Hand(s), finger(s) unspecified | Hospitalized |
| Nov 21, 2024 | Horton, Inc. | BRITTON, South Dakota | Nonroadway noncollision incident n.e.c. | Disc disorders, herniated disc | Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified | Hospitalized |
| Nov 15, 2024 | Agtegra Cooperative | ABERDEEN, South Dakota | Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing | Nonfatal 'crushing' injuries | Hand(s), finger(s) unspecified | Hospitalized |
| Nov 14, 2024 | Solventum | BROOKINGS, South Dakota | Fall on same level due to slip or trip | Fractures | Hip joint(s) | Hospitalized |
| Nov 4, 2024 | North American Truck & Trailer, Inc. | SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota | Contact incidents unspecified | Fractures | Trunk and other lower extremities | Hospitalized |
| Oct 31, 2024 | The Salvation Army of Watertown | WATERTOWN, South Dakota | Fall on same level n.e.c. | Fractures | Hip joint(s) | Hospitalized |
| Oct 28, 2024 | Viaflex, INC. | SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota | Struck by running powered equipment unspecified | Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified | Other finger(s) n.e.c. | Hospitalized, Amputation |
| Oct 23, 2024 | Lloyd Companies | RAPID CITY, South Dakota | Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feet | Fractures | Multiple body parts n.e.c. | Hospitalized |
| Oct 21, 2024 | Gray Construction Co. | WATERTOWN, South Dakota | Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feet | Multiple traumatic injuries and disorders unspecified | Multiple body parts n.e.c. | Hospitalized |
| Oct 15, 2024 | Glacial Lakes Energy, LLC - Mina | MINA, South Dakota | Other fall to lower level unspecified | Fractures | Rib(s), oblique area | Hospitalized |
| Oct 11, 2024 | Cimpl's, LLC | YANKTON, South Dakota | Struck by running powered equipment n.e.c. | Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified | Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) | Amputation |
| Oct 7, 2024 | Dells Material Company | DELL RAPIDS, South Dakota | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet | Concussions | Brain | Hospitalized |
| Oct 7, 2024 | Neiman Enterprises, Inc. | SPEARFISH, South Dakota | Struck by running powered equipment during maintenance, cleaning, testing | Multiple surface and flesh wounds | Multiple lower extremities locations unspecified | Hospitalized |
| Oct 3, 2024 | U.S. Department of the Interior | VALE, South Dakota | Struck by animal unspecified | Traumatic injuries or exposures unspecified | Part of body unspecified | Hospitalized |
| Oct 3, 2024 | Indian Health Service | PINE RIDGE, South Dakota | Fall to lower level resulting from exposure or contact unspecified | Fractures and burns | Body systems and other part(s) of body | Hospitalized |
| Oct 3, 2024 | Johnson Controls | TEA, South Dakota | Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning | Amputations involving bone loss | Other finger(s) n.e.c. | Amputation |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Western Dairy Transport, LLC | LAKE NORDEN, South Dakota | Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet | Fractures | Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified | Hospitalized |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Family Dollar, Inc. - Store 25324 | SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area | Intracranial injuries unspecified | Brain | Hospitalized |
| Sep 9, 2024 | T and R Electric Supply Company, Inc. | COLMAN, South Dakota | Other fall to lower level unspecified | Fractures | Ankle(s) and leg(s) n.e.c. | Hospitalized |
| Sep 7, 2024 | Simon Contractors of South Dakota, Inc. | RAPID CITY, South Dakota | Struck by rolling, sliding, or shifting objects non-running | Fractures | Lower leg(s) | Hospitalized |
| Aug 27, 2024 | Sams Club Store #8165 | SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota | Fall on same level due to slip or trip | Fractures | Hip joint(s) | Hospitalized |
| Aug 27, 2024 | Dennis Ahrendt | SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota | Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feet | Intracranial injuries unspecified | Brain | Hospitalized |
| Aug 22, 2024 | Electric Construction Company | COLTON, South Dakota | Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feet | Fractures | Exterior and musculoskeletal structures of the back unspecified | Hospitalized |
| Aug 13, 2024 | United States Department of Agriculture | CUSTER, South Dakota | Vehicle struck by falling or flying object(s), nonroadway | Fractures and surface, flesh wounds | Trunk and other lower extremities | Hospitalized |
| Aug 11, 2024 | Airport Express Shuttle, Inc. | RAPID CITY, South Dakota | Slip, trip, stumble while stepping between levels | Fractures | Hip joint(s) | Hospitalized |
| Jul 24, 2024 | Rosebud Wood Products, INC. | MADISON, South Dakota | Struck by running powered equipment n.e.c. | Amputations involving bone loss | Other finger(s) n.e.c. | Hospitalized, Amputation |
| Jul 22, 2024 | McCormick Construction Co., Inc. DBA MCC, Inc. | MC LAUGHLIN, South Dakota | Fall to lower level caught self or curtailed | Fractures | Lower leg(s) | Hospitalized |
| Jul 12, 2024 | Walmart #1483 | YANKTON, South Dakota | Injured by object pushed or pulled by person | Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified | Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) | Amputation |
| Jul 2, 2024 | Shur Company | YANKTON, South Dakota | Other fall to lower level unspecified | Fractures | Wrist(s) | Hospitalized |
| Jul 1, 2024 | Menards, Inc. | RAPID CITY, South Dakota | Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation | Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified | Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) | Amputation |
| Jul 1, 2024 | Wilson Trailers | YANKTON, South Dakota | Caught, entangled in running powered equipment normal operation | Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified | Thumb(s) | Amputation |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Pacific Steel & Recycling | PHILIP, South Dakota | Compressed between running equipment and other object(s) | Amputations involving bone loss | Other finger(s) n.e.c. | Amputation |
| Jun 18, 2024 | Sanford Health -Surgical Tower - Building 3 | SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota | Fall on same level due to slip or trip | Fractures | Hip joint(s) | Hospitalized |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Cimpl's, LLC | YANKTON, South Dakota | Struck by other falling object n.e.c. | Fractures | Lower leg(s) | Hospitalized |
| Jun 1, 2024 | Asphalt Paving & Materials Co | HURON, South Dakota | Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area | Fractures | Multiple lower extremities locations n.e.c. | Hospitalized |
| May 15, 2024 | Nu-Look Exteriors, Inc. | ABERDEEN, South Dakota | Other fall to lower level 6 to 30 feet | Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries | Trunk and other upper extremities | Hospitalized |
| May 13, 2024 | BX Civil & Construction, Inc. | HARRISBURG, South Dakota | Roadway noncollision vehicle overturn | Multiple severe wounds and internal injuries | Multiple trunk locations | Hospitalized |
| May 13, 2024 | Dakota Layers, LLP | FLANDREAU, South Dakota | Fall on same level resulting in exposure or contact | Amputations, avulsions, enucleations unspecified | Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s) | Amputation |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Dakota Provisions, LLC | HURON, South Dakota | Caught or wedged between objects nonrunning | Amputations involving bone loss | Other finger(s) n.e.c. | Amputation |
| Apr 1, 2024 | The Goodman Group, LLC | SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota | Fall on same level due to slip or trip | Fractures | Forearm(s) | Hospitalized |
| Apr 1, 2024 | AMTEC Corporation | CLEAR LAKE, South Dakota | Explosion unspecified | Amputations involving bone loss | Other finger(s) n.e.c. | Hospitalized, Amputation |
Frequently Asked Questions
OSHA requires employers to report all workplace injuries resulting in hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye within 24 hours. Each report in this database includes the employer name, full address, a description of the event, the nature of injury, and a detailed narrative of what happened.
The most common severe workplace injuries include amputations, fractures, crushing injuries, burns, and multiple injuries. Falls, being struck by objects, caught-in/between incidents, and exposure to harmful substances are among the most common event types.
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