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

Golden Peanut and Tree Nut, LLC

Other fall to lower level 6 to 10 feet · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Golden Peanut and Tree Nut, LLC, 55 East Railroad St, HEADLAND, ALABAMA 36345 on — Fractures, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.

An employee was prepping a rail car for a load of peanuts when he fell approximately 10 ft. and landed outside of the rail car breaking both of his legs.

Hospitalized Leg(s), unspecified Train, locomotive, rail car, unspecified

Petroleum Service Corporation

An employee was preparing a tank car for loading while chipping away solidified product in the manway opening of the tank car. A pressure noise within the tank car startled the employee, causing him to stumble backward and fall approximately 10 feet over the guard railing at the chemical loading rack to the ground. The employee suffered fractured vertebrae, a fractured right wrist and ankle, and a dislocated jaw.

Absolics Inc.

An employee was installing an electrical tray remover from a ladder. As he was descending, his missed a step and fell 6-7 feet to the floor. The employee suffered a head injury.

American Residential Products, Inc.

Two employees were installing spray foam insulation in the attic of a new residential construction. The injured employee fell 8 feet from an A-frame ladder to the floor. The employee suffered lacerations, abrasions, and a head injury.

Berkheimer Maintenance

An employee was on a raised platform attaching wires to electrical boxes. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to the floor below and struck an exit sign on the way down, resulting in an injury to his face.

High-Tec Industrial Services, Inc.

An employee was in a forklift man basket fixing a garage door opener when they fell approximately 8 feet to the concrete ground below. The employee suffered head and back injuries as well as kidney bruising.

Ohio Hickory Harvest Brand Products, Inc.

An employee was pulling a rubber conveyor belt around the end of a line to connect it to the mechanical portion underneath. The employee's right hand was pulled into the gears under the belt, causing an amputation to the right thumb.

Hormel Foods Corporation

An employee was cleaning a label cutter drum with a rag. His left index finger was caught in the cutter resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Star Snacks Co., LLC

An employee was mopping a floor. When he went to move a portable spice spreader, it fell on him and lacerated an area behind his right knee. He was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Golden Peanut Company, LLC

An employee was hanging a tote bag on a forklift tine when their upper arm became caught between the tote bag and the tine. The employee had the soft tissue of the upper arm crushed.

JOHN B. SANFILIPPO & SON, INC

An employee was operating a stand-up powered industrial truck when their left foot was crushed between the forklift and a support beam, resulting in fractures to multiple bones in their foot.

Sysco Gulf Coast, LLC

An employee was traveling down the maintenance aisle of a warehouse on a single-pallet front rider jack. The jack malfunctioned, causing the brakes to apply; the employee fell forward onto the concrete warehouse floor. The employee suffered an injury to the left leg and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Norflex, Inc.

An employee was operating a metal roller machine to roll a small piece of metal. The employee's right index finger became caught between the metal and the machine, and the fingertip was amputated.

Ampler Pizza II LLC

An employee was shot in the leg with a pistol during an altercation with two people who had entered the store without permission.

Birdsong Corporation

An employee was directing a truck driver to a dump site when the truck's peanut trailer slipped off the kingpin. As the trailer fell, a ladder attached to it lacerated the employee's ear. The employee was hospitalized.

Pilgrims

An employee was unloading a forklift from a trailer to the ground. The employee was climbing down the ladder of the trailer when their foot slipped through one of the rungs, causing them to fall backward onto the forklift forks. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs.