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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND

Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND, 4666 FARIES PARKWAY, DECATUR, ILLINOIS 62525 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

An millwright working on a fan in the feed house suffered an amputation of his left pinky finger while rolling a fan belt back onto a pulley.

Hospitalized Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Fans, blowers-wall, floor, ceiling, ventilation

Archer Daniels Midland

An employee was unloading rail cars and came in contact with the indexer. The employee's right foot was caught between the indexer and a rail car causing a laceration to the top of his foot and two fractured toes.

Archer Daniels Midland

While exiting a loader, an employee fell approximately 2 feet to a lower level and broke the left wrist, requiring surgery.

Archer Daniels Midland

While installing a belt driven motor assembly an employee's finger was caught between a belt and the sheave resulting in a laceration to the little finger on his right hand. The employee was admitted to the hospital in preparation for surgery.

Archer Daniels Midland

An employee was investigating the discharge of a rotary airlock. He removed the inspection door, visually inspected the spout, and thought he saw a suspicious buildup. When he attempted to remove the buildup inside the spout with his left hand, his glove was caught by the running airlock, which then pulled his hand in and amputated three fingertips.

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N. S. Giles Foundations, Inc.

An employee was changing mud cups in the hopper cylinders of a concrete pump truck. The cylinders moved and three of the employees fingers were amputated.

Weld Mech, Inc.

An employee was standing on the rig floor next to a polishing unit. His hand was placed on the polishing unit when the pump was lowered, resulting in amputation of their right thumb, ring, and middle fingertips.

Axium Packaging LLC

An employee was using air to blow out the air wash to the blender and grinder station. As the employee reached to verify that the air wash was clean, the unit pinched and amputated their fingertip.

PanTerra Energy

An employee was retrieving a lost drill pipe with a lifting bail when their left thumb got pinched between the table and handle of the lifting bail while trying to re-thread the pipe to lift it out. The employee suffered an amputation to the left thumb.

Graphic Packaging International

An employee was removing a core chuck from a stationary roll when their right ring finger was pinched between the chuck and the roll. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Cargill Inc.

An employee was bringing a filter online. When the employee opened a valve to initiate flow through the filter, the gasket on the filter housing failed, spraying a water/erythritol mixture (heated to about 175 degrees Fahrenheit) toward the employee. The employee moved back quickly and their chemical suit caught on something, causing it to open. The mixture burned the employee's abdomen and left arm.

Cargill, Incorporated

An employee was performing regular job duties when they began to feel unwell. The employee was hospitalized for dehydration due to heat.

Cargill, Incorporated

An employee was descending a ladder and fell approximately 5-6 feet to the floor, resulting in a fractured elbow.

Cargill Incorporated

An employee was unloading material from a rail car when they fell approximately 15 feet onto the feed layout area. The employee was hospitalized with a broken femur that required surgery.

Western Grain and Milling

An employee was removing feed from a grain trailer. After unclogging feed in the cone of the feed silo, the employee was getting up off the ground. His right hand was braced on the concrete and as he raised his body, the right hand slipped. His left index finger was caught in the auger, resulting in amputation.

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.