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

O'Brien Wire Products of Texas, Inc.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at O'Brien Wire Products of Texas, Inc., 12800 Aldine Westfield Rd., HOUSTON, TEXAS 77039 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

While adjusting the shear on the Schlatter machine, an employee's first two fingers on his left hand were amputated.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.

DGS Import, LLC

An employee was changing a saw blade when the saw machine activated. The employee's left ring and little fingers were amputated.

Millennium Mat Company

An employee was clearing a jam from the label cutting machine when their left middle finger was partially amputated.

Bauer Foundation Corp.

Two employees were repairing the hydraulic engagement pins on a rented front-end wheel loader. The machine controls were activated to move the attachment pins and an employee's finger was caught between the pins and the bushings. Their right index finger was partially amputated.

Guggisberg Cheese, Inc.

An employee was cleaning the conveyor on a piece of equipment when they slipped and their right hand was pulled into the chain sprocket. The employee's fifth fingertip was amputated.

Alsco Inc.

An employee was throwing blankets onto a blanket folding and stacking machine. A blanket got stuck in the machine and she attempted to remove it when the machine contacted her right little finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

OKLAHOMA STEEL & WIRE CO. INC.

An employee was driving a powered industrial truck (PIT) carrying a nesting sheave on the back counterweight of the PIT. He was holding the sheave when the PIT struck a pothole in the floor, causing the sheave to roll forward and crush his right index fingertip against the back of the PIT seat frame. The employee's fingertip was amputated, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

Certified Slings & Supply

An employee was building slings. They were placing wire rope in a pneumatic vise when their right index finger was caught between the vise and the wire rope, resulting in a fracture that required hospitalization and surgery.

Trion Industries, Inc.

On September 15, 2025, an employee was working on an auto-welder when the guard closed on their left ring finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Bright Coop, Inc

At about 7:15 a.m. on August 28, 2025, an employee was using a construction compactor to stabilize the dirt of a dam that had just been built. The dirt gave way underneath the compactor, which tipped on its left side. The employee fell out and was crushed and pinned between the compactor and the dirt. He was hospitalized, having suffered a broken sternum and broken ribs on both sides, as well as a laceration to the left leg by the ankle joint.

Viakable Manufacturing LLC

A temporary employee was stripping wire for scrap when the machine crushed their left thumb and little finger.

T G Meat Center LLC

After cutting a slab of beef short ribs, an employee turned to grab the pieces he had cut and his right hand contacted the saw blade. The employee sustained an amputation to his right index finger.

Professional Flooring Supply

An employee was unloading a carpet pad from a truck when they fell from the truck dock to the concrete below, resulting in five fractured ribs and an injury to their left lung.

EnviroSafe Demil LLC

An employee was inspecting flares processes. The employee received burns to the front side of the body, face and arm from the flares.

Inteplast Group

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

Regency IHS of Fairwinds Halletsville, LLC

An employee was walking up a walkway to enter a building through the back entrance when she tripped over the lip of the cement ramp. The employee fell and sustained a fractured right hip.