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

Hamilton Parker Co.

Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Hamilton Parker Co., 188 East Williams Street, DELAWARE, OHIO 43015 on — Amputations, affecting the fingernail(s), nailbed(s) .

An employee was cutting a piece of wood on the table saw and caught the side of his thumb on the saw blade amputating the left thumb nail. The employee was hospitalized.

Amputation Fingernail(s), nailbed(s) Table saws

Leidy's LLC

An employee was operating a band saw when his right little fingertip was amputated.

Swift Beef Company

An employee was operating a strip saw. As the employee shut off the saw, their right index and middle fingertips were amputated by the blade before it came to a complete stop.

Kitchen Tune-Up

An employee was using a table saw to cut a piece of wood for wall framing. The wood jumped, causing the employee's hand to move toward the saw, amputating their left index finger and causing a laceration on their hand.

BBCJ LUMBER LLC

An employee was operating a trim saw. While trying to free a jammed board she had just cut, she came into contact with the running saw blade, which amputated her right thumb.

Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc.

An employee was using a shaper to cut wood when their right hand contacted the blade, resulting in a partial amputation to the right ring finger.

Hamilton Parker Company, LLC.

The injured employee was walking through the warehouse. Another associate was driving a forklift with a pallet of large format tile (slabs) when the slabs began to tip. The injured employee ran over to stop the slabs from falling, but the slabs fell on his lower left leg/foot. The employee sustained fractures in his lower leg and foot. He was hospitalized and required surgery.

Menard, Inc.

An employee was doing a cutback on a piece of lumber using a chop saw. The saw hit a knot, the piece of lumber buckled, then kicked back and broke the kickback guard. The board was then pulled back into the blade, which lacerated the employee's left index and middle fingers.

Lowe's Home Improvement LLC

On October 16, 2025, an employee was entering a parking lot after completing their work shift when they were struck by a vehicle being operated by a customer. The employee fell backward from the impact and the back of their head struck the asphalt. The employee was hospitalized due to brain bleed and a skull fracture.

Menard, Inc.

An employee was descending a rolling ladder when she fell from the last step and her head struck the floor, resulting in a fractured pelvis.

Lowe's Home Centers, LLC dba Lowe's of Mount Vernon

On September 24, 2025, an employee was using a sledgehammer to straighten the forks on a forklift when a piece of metal broke off the fork and became lodged in the employee's leg. The employee was hospitalized.

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.