Work Related Fatality Investigation Archive

The following tables contain links to brief narratives for each work-related fatality investigated by the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration (TOSHA). They are listed in chronological order by date of occurrence.

For additional information, such as employer name, address, scope of inspection, union affiliation, number of employees, NAICS code, and amendments to citations, go to the OSHA Inspection Information Search webpage and search the inspection number(s).

Fatality Investigations 2025

Number	Description	Inspection Number
1	Crushed	1801886
2	Deflagration	1804040
3	Crushed	1804726
4	Fall	1810671
5	Crushed	1823895
6	Crushed	1824196
7	Struck by	1828897
8	Fall	1829632
9	Heat stress	1832992
10	Fall	1834154
11	Struck by	1834750
12	Struck by	1837629
13	Crushed by	1845143
14	Drowning	1847360
15	Crushed by	1851696
16	Fall	1853592
33	Struck by	1855302
34	Fall	1856646
35	Fall	1856861
36	Caught in	1857003
38	Fall	1862402
39	Crushed by	1863700
40	Fall	1863383
42	Struck by	1864150

Fatality Investigation Archive 2021-2024

Number	Description	Inspection Number
1	Fall through skylight	1721951
2	Struck by forklift	1726215
3	Caught in forklift	1736779
4	Struck by tree	1739406
5	Slip on wet floor	1745860
6	Struck by bus	1748341
7	Fall from vehicle	1748083
8	Struck by alloy chain sling	1749105
9	Explosion/burn	1751638
10	Fall	1752671
11	Struck by vehicle	1757132
12	Crushed by equipment	1757669
13	Fall from loading dock	1761709
14	Electrocution	1763555
15	Struck by tree	1764554
16	Crushed by trailer	1769429
17	Trench cave-in	1771062
18	Crushed/Caught in	1772223
19	Crushed/Caught in	1776739
20	Crushed	1777677
21	Struck by	1778154
22	Fall	1780047
23	Struck by	1785411
24	Crushed by	1787536
25	Crushed	1787855
26	Crushed	1795734

Number	Description	Inspection Number
1	Fall through skylight	1641715
2	Struck by wood panel	1648501
3	Struck by chipper truck	1656945
4	Crushed by elevator mechanism	1657666
5	Struck by garbage truck	1660587
6	Overturned vehicle	1665536
7	Struck by saw blades	1667775
8	Fall through skylight	1668035
9	Thrown from motorcycle	1668457
10	Struck by dumpster	1668340
11	Crushed by landscaping blocks	1670069
12	Crushed inside concrete manhole	1671601
13	Struck by bumper jack hook	1672738
14	Workplace violence	1674337
15	Fall through skylight	1675158
16	Smoke inhalation	1676429
17	Thrown from bucket	1676283
18	Fall from roof	1677565
19	Fall from tobacco barrels	1679535
20	Crushed between parts of ride	1681434
21	Crushed by cave-in	1682055
22	Mower rollover	1686168
23	Stung by wasp	1682697
24	Stung by hornets	1683499
25	Struck by building collapse	1687413
26	Struck by forklift	1684364
27	CO exposure	1688101
28	UTV rollover	1692768
29	Heat exhaustion	1694161
30	Heat exhaustion	1694606
31	Fall from ladder	1696251
32	Crushed by wood pack	1696239
33	Fall from balcony	1696801
34	Mower rollover	1698362
35	Fall from roof	1700418
36	Overturned compactor	1701031
37	Fall from roof deck	1703349
38	Workplace violence	1707386
39	COVID-19	1707309
40	Struck by dolly	1713378
41	Struck by tree	1716116
42	Embolism	1717461
43	Fall from roof	1716690
44	Fall from rafters	1718518
45	Slip-trip-fall	1733319

Number	Description	Inspection Number
1	Fire-Burn	1567369
2	Slip/Trip/Fall	1572028
3	Fall from roof	1579645
4	Slip/Trip/Fall	1577011
5	Fall from order picker	1575504
6	Struck By Vehicle	1579373
7	Struck by Vehicle	1576344
8	Slip/Trip/Fall	1579387
9	Overturned Vehicle	1579237
10	Crushed by arm of loader	1580400
11	Struck By Bulldozer	1581821
12	Overturned Vehicle	1586861
13	Struck By Loader	1590123
14	Slip/Trip/Fall	1591564
15	Fall from roof	1594745
16	Struck by concrete forms	1602868
17	Fall from equipment	1604846
18	Electrocution	1606779
19	Electrocution	1638921
20	Overturned Equipment	1610411
21	Electrocution	1615803
22	Workplace Violence	1618374
23	Struck By forklift	1622152
24	Fall	1622756
25	Fall from scaffold	1625611
26	Struck By Vehicle	1626203
27	Struck By Bulldozer	1625931
28	Fall from ladder	1629501
29	Fall from ladder	1630453
30	Workplace Violence	1637058
32	Electrocution	1641355
33	Fall from concrete platform	169005
34	Struck By Trailer	1640565

Count*	Description	Inspection Number
1	Covid-19	1508853
2	Struck by tree limb	1511077
3	Covid-19	1511886
4	Covid-19	1512253
5	Struck by	1513692
6	Covid-19	1513771
7	Covid-19	1514812
8	Fall through roof	1516301
9	Struck by	1518649
10	Crushed by	1520198
11	Struck by vehicle	1521184
12	Electrocution	1521923
13	Fall from scaffold	1522606
14	Struck by	1525401
15	Fall from ladder	1525984
16	Struck by	1527789
17	Fall	1530439
18	Covid-19	1532595
19	Covid-19	1535328
20	Inhalation	1537464
21	Fall	1537769
22	Fall	1540822
23	Covid-19	1543068
24	Covid-19	1544443
25	Covid-19	1544448
26	Crushed	1545152
27	Fall from ladder	1547079
28	Fall	1548417
29	Covid-19	1549571
30	Covid-19	1549737
31	Fall	1550204
32	Covid-19	1550282
33	Struck by	1550303
34	Crushed by	1550391
35	Covid-19	1550966
36	Covid-19	1550996
37	Covid-19	1551384
38	Covid-19	1551520
39	Covid-19	1551575
40	Covid-19	1552600
41	Fall	1554214
42	Electrocution	1555603
43	Covid-19	1555862
44	Covid-19	1557129
45	Covid-19	1557151
46	Electrocution	1557229
47	Struck by	1557275
48	Covid-19	1558820
49	Covid-19	1558861
50	Struck by a tree	1560455
51	Fall	1561370
52	Crushed by	1564415
53	Covid-19	1565426
54	Crushed in machine	1566355
55	Covid-19	1567353
56	Covid-19	157300

*Numbering as of 6/13/2022

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