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

Pitney Bowes Presort Services

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Pitney Bowes Presort Services, 4350 NW 121st St, URBANDALE, IOWA 50323 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was presorting mail when his right index fingertip was caught and amputated on the underside of the mail tray conveyor.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Conveyors-powered, unspecified

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The employee was mail sorting when she tripped over an ergo mat breaking her left leg. The employee was hospitalized.

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Pall Corporation

An employee was operating a machine when a wire pulled his right glove resulting in amputation of the index and middle fingertips.

Koch Foods of Cincinnati

An employee was grinding chicken when their right index fingertip was caught in the grinder and amputated.

Stella-Jones Corporation

An employee was sharpening peeler blades when their shirt was caught in the grinding wheel. The employee sustained tendon damage and a crushed right hand.

Mack Manufacturing, Inc.

An employee was passing through a large metal door when the door closed on the employee, resulting in a cracked rib.

Nutmeg Container Corporation

An employee was preparing to cut lumber on a panel saw when the clamp engaged and caught the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

L2S LLC

On September 30, 2025, at 1:45 a.m., an employee was operating a forklift to load materials on an outbound dock. His left foot became caught between the forklift and a pole, resulting in a broken big toe.

Our Lady of Victory National Shrine & Basilica

An employee was riding a horse in the horse corral/riding arena when the horse bucked multiple times. The employee performed an emergency dismount off the right side of the horse. When she landed, she fell backward in the sand, onto her back. The employee sustained a crushed vertebra.

IFCO Systems

An employee was pulling an electrical wire from a circuit. The wire contacted a live wire and created an arc flash. The employee sustained burns on their left side and arm.

Roosevelt Paper Company

An employee was operating a heat press machine. His right foot was caught between a paper roller and the heat press, resulting in amputation of a toe.

HVFG, LLC

On 11/08/2024, an employee was working on piping a refrigeration condenser. Refrigeration condensers arrive from the factory with the internal piping pressurized and the end capped. The employee was cutting a capped refrigeration line when the cap blew off, striking the battery-operated saw he was using and knocking the saw it into his face. He was cut under the nose and struck on the head. The angle of the impact pushed metal fragments under his safety glasses and into his eyes. The employee sustained metal fragments in his eyes, lacerations to the face, and contusions to the head.

U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

On September 29, 2025, a rural mail carrier was delivering parcels to a business when she tripped on a parking stop block in front of the business. She fell to the ground and sustained fractures to her left hip and pelvis. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

An employee was walking around chairs when they slipped/tripped and fell, resulting in hospitalization with a fractured hip.

Iowa Veterans Home

An employee was walking to get on a recreation bus when she slipped on ice and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured right hip.

United States Postal Service

An employee was walking to the back door of the post office when they slipped on the icy ground due to freezing rain and fell. The employee sustained a torn rotator cuff in their right shoulder and a fractured right hip.

U.S. Postal Service

An employee was on top of an APC to access a radio on a shelf when they slipped and fell to the ground. They sustained three fractured ribs, a fractured right scapula and right clavicle, a knot on top of their head, and a laceration to their left leg.