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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Aspen Products Inc.

Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Aspen Products Inc., 3220 Avondale Mill Road, MACON, GEORGIA 31206 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was unjamming a machine when the scrap knives struck the employee's right middle finger, amputating the fingertip.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Paper production machinery, unspecified

ASPEN PRODUCTS INC

An employee was cleaning the rollers of a press machine when their glove got caught in a roller. The employee sustained an amputation to their right ring finger and their right middle finger was fractured.

ASPEN PRODUCTS INC

An employee was removing cutting plate dies from a machine when they sustained a fingertip amputation.

ASPEN PRODUCTS INC.

An employee was trying to unclog a paper jam in a machine. The machine, which was running at the time, caused an amputation to the employee's right index finger.

ASPEN PRODUCTS INC

An employee was unjamming a paper machine when their right middle finger contacted the machine die, resulting in a partial amputation to the fingertip.

ASPEN PRODUCTS INC.

An employee was removing a paper jam from a machine when their right hand became caught in the die. Three fingers were amputated.

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N. S. Giles Foundations, Inc.

An employee was changing mud cups in the hopper cylinders of a concrete pump truck. The cylinders moved and three of the employees fingers were amputated.

Weld Mech, Inc.

An employee was standing on the rig floor next to a polishing unit. His hand was placed on the polishing unit when the pump was lowered, resulting in amputation of their right thumb, ring, and middle fingertips.

Axium Packaging LLC

An employee was using air to blow out the air wash to the blender and grinder station. As the employee reached to verify that the air wash was clean, the unit pinched and amputated their fingertip.

PanTerra Energy

An employee was retrieving a lost drill pipe with a lifting bail when their left thumb got pinched between the table and handle of the lifting bail while trying to re-thread the pipe to lift it out. The employee suffered an amputation to the left thumb.

Graphic Packaging International

An employee was removing a core chuck from a stationary roll when their right ring finger was pinched between the chuck and the roll. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Rand-Whitney Mid-Atlantic

An employee was resetting a slitter machine's counter when their left hand was crushed under two rotating score shafts. The employee sustained amputations to three fingers on their left hand.

Triad Packaging, Inc.

An employee went to retrieve dunnage for a co-worker when his right hand became caught in the rollers on the box transfer conveyor. The employee sustained a partial amputation to his middle fingertip.

International Paper

An employee was working in the converting area installing a glue tote, and became ill from the heat. The employee sustained heat exhaustion.

Blue Ridge Paper Products LLC

An employee was troubleshooting a mini-feeder. As the employee was tapping the rotating drive chain with an Allen wrench, the employee's right hand came into contact with the chain. The employee suffered partial amputations, lacerations, and fractures to the middle and ring fingers. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident.

Rand-Whitney Mid-Atlantic

An employee was between two sections of a printer when they sustained amputations to three fingertips on their right hand from the running print rolls.

GS II Building Products, Inc.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

US Battery Manufacturing Company, Inc

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

Alfa Insurance

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

Bull Moose Tube

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.