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

CARSTIN BRANDS, INC.

Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at CARSTIN BRANDS, INC., 520 EAST 2ND STREET, ARTHUR, ILLINOIS 61911 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee suffered the amputation of his right index fingertip on April 28, 2015, when a metal fire door in the breezeway slammed shut.

Hospitalized Amputation Fingertip(s) Doors, except garage and vehicle

CARSTIN BRANDS, INC.

An employee had been using a stone saw to cut granite countertops. After making a cut, the employee used a suction cup to pull a cut countertop toward them. The material dropped onto the table, and the employee's left thumb was caught between the two objects. The thumb was amputated from the first knuckle down.

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KLX Energy Services

An employee was closing an office door when their middle fingertip was caught between the door and the frame, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

ALAN WIRE COMPANY

An employee was doing a repair in an office building. He was closing a bank vault door when his right index finger became caught between the door and the door frame resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Dakota Plains Dairy, LLC

An employee's left index finger was pinched between a cattle gate and a concrete wall, resulting in amputation of soft tissue and loss of the fingernail.

USPS

An employee was delivering mail when their left little finger got caught in a door and the door closed, resulting in amputation.

R. F. KNOX COMPANY, INC.

On December 11, 2023, an employee was transporting equipment for demolition tasks and waiting for the superintendent to open the door. The door closed and amputated the tip of the employee's left thumb.

TECHO-BLOC CORP

An employee was shoveling excess material (spillage) that consisted of dry mix, sand, aggregate and cement. As he was shoveling, some material blew back in his face and around his safety glasses. He got a piece of metal in his left eye that required surgery. The employee was hospitalized.

D.L. Gasser Construction, Inc.

An employee was spotting the dust auger as it was lowered onto the trailer so that it would not contact a piece of equipment already on the trailer and pinch electrical cords. As the auger was being moved into place horizontally, his thumb was caught between two brackets, one on the auger and one on a piece of equipment already on the trailer. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the left thumb.

Barnsco, Inc.

A temporary employee was bending rebar on a bending table (machine) when his right little finger got caught in the rollers. The employee sustained an amputation down to the first knuckle below the fingernail.

RHG, LLC

At 10:00 a.m., an employee was preparing to cut lumber for an A-frame structure using a compound miter saw when the saw kicked back and contacted his left hand. The employee sustained complete amputation of the thumb and a partial amputation of the index finger.

Architectural Surfaces Group, LLC

An employee was unloading a bundle of quartz slabs from a truck bed using a forklift and lifting slings. The employee was standing on the truck bed to secure the slings to the bundle when one of the two A-frames supporting the bundle fell over. The employee jumped off the truck bed to avoid being hit, causing them to strike the ground and sustain fractures to their left hip, femur, and elbow.

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.