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

R.W. Screw Products, Inc.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c.

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at R.W. Screw Products, Inc., 999 Oberlin Ave. SW, MASSILLON, OHIO 44647 on — Fractures and other injuries, n.e.c., affecting the hand(s), unspecified.

An employee suffered a hand fracture and tendon laceration while adjusting a machine and screwing in new screws. The machine was in operation at the time of the incident.

Hospitalized Hand(s), unspecified 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.

Acutec Precision Aerospace, Inc.

An employee was raising a lift to fix a server box when the lift caught the edge of the box and it fell. The employee's finger was pinched by the box, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Precision Impacts, LLC

An employee was working to remove an extra slug from a press. The employee pushed the eject button, then tried to catch the slug. When the release came out, it pinched the employee's right index finger against the slug, resulting in an amputation to the finger.

Caterpillar, Inc.

On September 5, 2025, at approximately 7:35 AM, a temporary employee was at the engine block rollover machine. Their left index fingertip was caught and amputated between a pneumatic part and a guard.

Asteroid Precision, Inc.

An employee was cleaning coolant tank magnets used to separate metal grinding mud from the coolant tanks. As the employee went to separate two magnets they snapped back together and crushed his right thumb, resulting in amputation of the top of the thumb.

Caterpillar, Inc.

A maintenance technician was measuring the width on a metal compressor's stroke length when their finger was pinched in the machine. The employee was hospitalized with lacerations to their finger.

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.