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

Ideal

Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Cuts, lacerations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Ideal, 4800 S. Austin Avenue, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60638 on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the forearm(s).

An employee was cutting the zip tie off a bar using a utility knife and severely lacerated the left forearm.

Hospitalized Forearm(s) Box cutters and razor knives

Mako Contracting, LLC

An employee was using a saw to cut a piece of concrete when the piece gave way and pushed the saw into the employee's leg. The employee's leg was lacerated, requiring stitches and hospitalization.

East Penn Manufacturing

An employee was using a utility knife to cut honeycomb paper when the knife amputated their left index fingertip.

Ash Brothers Fireplace and Chimney Co

An employee was cleaning a resident's chimney. While using a drill, the employee's glove became caught in the drill and their finger was fractured.

RPM & Associates Inc

An employee was grinding some hardfacing on a bulldozer blade when the 9-inch grinder kicked back and lacerated his left leg above the knee. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Tenaris Hickman

An employee was operating a rotating tool to place thread protectors on the end of pipe. Her left hand was on the rotating part of the tool when the tool engaged, resulting in a left forearm fracture and a thumb laceration.

Spar Marketing Force Inc.

On July 29, 2025, an employee was removing a bolt from a metal racking beam. The beam fell, and the employee's hand was crushed between the beam and a pallet of bricks. Two of the employee's fingers were amputated.

Lamar Advertising of Lafayette

An employee was on top of a billboard display on the lower catwalk. The employee loosened the straps that secured the vinyl leading to a pair of butler sections in the front part of the billboard. This action caused four butler sections to slip, and one of them struck the employee. The employee fell off the catwalk, however, the fall was properly arrested. The employee sustained a broken right arm and a laceration to the back of the head.

CDS/Advantage Solutions

An employee tripped over a case of water and fell on the concrete floor sustaining a fractured right hip.

Advantage Solutions

An employee was on a forklift that was elevated approximately 20 feet and was auditing inventory. The forklift malfunctioned and the employee fell down to the surface below, causing them to sustain multiple fractures.

Crossmark, Inc

An employee was standing on a demo cart, handling food samples when they fell against the railing. The employee sustained a punctured lung and broken ribs that required hospitalization.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.