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

KISMET RUBBER PRODUCTS CORPORATION

Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at KISMET RUBBER PRODUCTS CORPORATION, 215 Industrial Blvd, BLUE RIDGE, GEORGIA 30513 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

The employee's right hand was caught in the feed of the extruder. The tip of the right-hand index finger was amputated.

Hospitalized Amputation Fingertip(s) Extruding machinery

Service Wire Company

On December 19, 2023, an employee was setting up a copper wire drawing machine when his left ring finger was pinched between a copper wire and a machine part. The employee's finger was partially amputated.

Oriental Trading Company, Inc.

An employee was examining a machine when a part moved up and amputated a fingertip on their left hand.

Fox Packaging

An employee was checking the gusset seal on a machine. He moved to the next cross sealer and the machine activated, causing an amputation to a left-hand finger. The employee was hospitalized.

Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.

An employee was evaluating a coiling machine to verify that the blade was present inside it. The machine's weld function was activated, and the machine crushed the employee's fingers, resulting in the amputation of the left middle and ring fingers.

ITW Bedford Wire

An employee's right hand was caught in a wire drawing machine, resulting in amputation.

GRT Ripley Operations LLC

An employee was working in the mixing department in an indoor warehouse when he began to sweat and cramp. He sustained heat exhaustion.

Rubber Right Rollers

An employee was operating a rubber roller grinder and had just completed the grinding process. He changed the rotation of the spindle to the clockwise position and began to clean rubber dust off the rollers with a shop rag. The rag caught on the roller and pulled his hand into the grinding wheel, resulting in a broken wrist, broken fingers, and lacerations to the hand and fingers. He was hospitalized.

Meteor Sealing Systems, LLC

An employee was clearing jammed material from an extruder machine. The employee reached their left hand through the unguarded opening between the extruder machine and the conveyor belt to manually dislodge the jam and contacted the moving chain and sprockets, resulting in an amputation to the left thumb.

Rheinmetall

At about 10:05 a.m. on March 10, 2025, an employee was working at the loading side of a mix conveyor when his right wrist was caught in a pinch point between the conveyor and a roller. He suffered laceration and fracture injuries to the wrist and was hospitalized.

Valley Rubber, LLC

An employee was manually adjusting a mold on a shuttle plate when the mold shifted, resulting in amputation of his right middle fingertip.

GS II Building Products, Inc.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

US Battery Manufacturing Company, Inc

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

Alfa Insurance

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

Bull Moose Tube

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.