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

SPRINGCO METAL COATING INC.

Contact with objects and equipment, n.e.c. · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at SPRINGCO METAL COATING INC., 12500 ELMWOOD AVENUE, CLEVELAND, OHIO 44111 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

An employee working on the Phosphate Line was transferring parts from one bin to another bin when his left thumb was caught on the side of the bin and amputated.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Tanks, bins, vats-nonconfined space

SPRINGCO METAL COATING INC.

An employee received an electrical shock when operating a palletizer, requiring hospitalization.

SPRINGCO METAL COATING INC.

An employee was hospitalized with a hand injury after being struck by a fan casing while performing maintenance.

SPRINGCO METAL COATING INC.

While operating a piece of equipment to cut metal stock, an employee's right index finger was crushed, requiring surgical amputation.

View SPRINGCO METAL COATING INC.'s full OSHA safety record →

Federal Bureau of Prisons

An employee was preparing the serving line area for the evening meal. He was cleaning a stainless steel table when his left middle finger got stuck in a gap where a raised ledge is affixed to the table. As he pulled his finger from the space, his fingertip was amputated.

Shaw's Supermarket

An employee was unloading goods from a pallet and putting them onto metal shelves when their wedding ring got caught on a shelf and their finger was amputated.

Beebe Landscape Services, Inc.

An employee was in the back of a dump truck emptying a bag from a mower. When he placed his hand on the side of the truck and as he came down from the truck, his ring became caught. The employee sustained an amputation to his ring finger.

American Foods Groups LLC

On May 18, 2023, a maintenance employee was descending a fixed ladder when his ring was caught on a ladder rung. The employee sustained a fracture to the left ring finger that required surgery.

Ferguson Waterworks

An employee was unloading a pipe from a fitted rack on his truck. As the employee grabbed a pipe strap, his glove became caught. The employee then went to step off the back of the truck and the top inch of his left hand ring finger was partially amputated.

Southwest Galvanizing, Inc.

An employee was cutting steel channels from a hanging rack that was being supported by a forklift. When they were finished, the forklift started moving the rack out of the area and a piece of material snagged one of the rack legs, causing the rack to tilt backward. The rack slipped off the forklift and struck the employee on his right side/lower back. He sustained a fractured pelvis and was hospitalized.

Valmont Industries, Inc.

An employee was working to remove waste wire between two boat rack/spreader bars (10 feet in length, 8 inches wide, and 16 inches tall, with a center lifting point for a crane hook) in the hanging department. One boat rack was leaning on another boat rack. The employee reached between the boat racks to move the leaning boat rack and remove the waste wire. The leaning boat rack shifted and the employee's left index finger was pinched between the two racks (weighing approximately 600 pounds each). The employee sustained an abrasive amputation of the left index fingertip from the nailbed up.

Steel Goode Products, LLC

An employee was performing maintenance on a coating machine and the belt cover guard was removed to repair the belt. The moving belt caught the employee's fingers and pulled them between the belts, injuring three fingers on the employee's left hand. The fingernails were removed from their little and middle fingers. The ring finger was amputated at the first knuckle.

Howmet Aerospace

An employee tripped, fell to the floor, and suffered a broken right radius. The employee was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

V & S TAUNTON GALVANIZING, LLC

An employee was stacking steel grating. The grating moved and their right ring finger got caught between grating. The last digit of the ring finger was amputated.

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.