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

UNITED INITIATORS, INC.

Nonvenomous insect bites · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at UNITED INITIATORS, INC., 555 GARDEN ST, ELYRIA, OHIO 44035 on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the nonclassifiable.

An employee was hospitalized after being bitten by an insect due to infection.

Hospitalized Nonclassifiable Insects, arachnids, mites, unspecified

UNITED INITIATORS, INC.

On May 12, 2018, an employee was stepping off the side platform on the passenger side of a yard truck when his right leg struck against the metal step, fracturing his tibia. He was hospitalized.

United Initiators, Inc.

Two employees were removing an old process line that contained residual dibenzoyl peroxide when the process line exploded. The first employee suffered a forehead cut, mangled right hand, lower arm amputation, and internal injuries due to piping puncturing the stomach/chest area. The second employee was hit in the face by a pipe, suffering a broken jaw.

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BriteView Landscape Services

While conducting landscaping, an employee was bitten by an insect. The employee sustained an infection.

Inline Plastics Corp.

An employee was bitten on the leg by a spider while cleaning cobwebs and developed an infection.

Pratt & Whitney

An employee was bitten by an insect. The bite became infected, and the employee was hospitalized.

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY

On May 24, 2019, an employee was bitten by a spider. The employee was hospitalized the next day when the bite became infected.

Westin Fort Lauderdale

An insect bit an employee who was working at a caf . The bite became infected, and the employee was hospitalized.

HEXPOL Compounding PC, Inc.

Two employees were lifting a roll of steel poly bar (50 inches and approximately 150 pounds) from ground level to a height of 4 feet at the 66-inch rubber calendar. One employee dropped the roll, resulting in the poly bar contacting the injured employee's right knee. The employee was hospitalized with fractured right patella.

Lyondellbasell

Employees were loading a 295-pound transformer onto a pickup truck using a forklift. The injured employee was acting as the spotter. The transformer hit the tailgate of the pickup truck and the spotter's right hand was struck by the transformer, resulting in amputation of the ring fingertip.

STEPAN COMPANY

An employee was wearing full PPE while emptying a 55-gallon drum of phosphorus pentoxide and fainted, collapsing and striking their head against the ground. The employee was hospitalized and it is likely that heat caused by wearing full body PPE contributed to fainting.

BASF Corporation

An employee was troubleshooting a plug in the super-absorbent polymer line. The employee opened an inspection port and their right hand was caught in a rotary valve, resulting in the amputation of four fingers between the knuckle and the first joint.

Galata Chemicals LLC

An employee was conducting a quality control measure by taking a chemical sample for lab analysis. When the employee was opening the sample point, it broke off and crude 2-Ethylhexyl thioglycolate (EHTG) shot out at 265 degrees, and it covered the employee's legs and right arm and splashed the right side of their face. The employee was hospitalized with first- and second-degree burns to their right thigh, lower right knee, inner left thigh, and upper left forearm.

United States Postal Service

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

Foundation Steel, LLC

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

GXO Logistics

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

Abbott Electric Inc

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

American Electric Power Company

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.