105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Cal - Ill Gasket Co., Inc.

Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Cal - Ill Gasket Co., Inc., 4712-16 W. Rice St., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60651 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

While rethreading a wire former, employee suffered a severe left hand injury to all four fingers, resulting in employee hospitalization.

Hospitalized Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Bending, rolling, shaping machinery, unspecified

NorAm Drilling Company

An employee was assisting with pipe on a drilling rig. The slips came down and landed on the employee's left foot fracturing four metatarsals.

Stalworth Underground LLC

Two employees were struck by the rotary table of a drilling rig while installing caisson. Employee 1 suffered multiple fractures, internal injuries, and head trauma. Employee 2 suffered multiple fractures, internal injuries, spinal injury, and head trauma.

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior

Employees were felling hazard trees. The injured employee was conducting 'bucking' operations to saw a tree from the road when the tree kicked-back, pinning him against the ground and fracturing his left femur. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

HT Energy LLC

An employee was greasing tongs on a work-over rig. The tongs lacerated one of the employee's fingers.

TKM BENGARD FARMS, LLC

An employee was chaining a vehicle when he had to change tools and the compressor. As the compressor was being charged, the employee stepped near the vehicle to make sure the compressor was attached. Then, he instructed a co-worker to lower the compressor. His right hand was on the compressor and under the chain, causing his ring finger to be crushed.

Acushnet Rubber Company, Inc

An employee had been loading a double deck press. The employee saw a mold had been sent in with the C-hook still attached on the belly bar. As he went to remove the hook from the mold, his right thumb got caught on the C-hook. The employee's thumb was partially amputated.

Freudenberg Limited Partnership

An employee was performing stamping operations using a 160-ton press machine. They began to clean the machine when the press came down on their hand, resulting in multiple finger amputations.

Flexitallic

An employee was feeding a ring into a horizontal winder when the ring got caught. As the employee was getting it to continue feeding into the machine, her right middle finger was caught in a pinch point on the machine's wheel. The fingertip was partially amputated.

Utex Industries, Inc.

An employee was operating a tape cutting machine, which automatically cuts 2-inch cloth material into predetermined lengths. The material became jammed in the blade, which froze in the partway down position. The employee began working to unjam the material. The machine activated, causing the blade to become free. The blade came down and amputated the employee's left index fingertip above the first knuckle and the tip of their left thumb.

Flexitallic

An employee was adjusting a ring on a bar bending machine when their glove became caught in a pinch point on the machine. The machine was activated and the employee sustained fractures to the four fingers on their right hand and amputations to the index and little fingers.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.