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

Phoenix Technologies

Injured by handheld object or equipment, unspecified · Cuts, lacerations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Phoenix Technologies, 501 E. Poe Rd., BOWLING GREEN, OHIO 43402 on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

An employee cut a finger and was hospitalized while moving a piece of metal in a storage closet.

Hospitalized Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Scrap metal

Welter Forest Products

An employee was tailing logs with a chainsaw. As they set the chainsaw on a log, the chain contacted the employee's left index finger, fracturing it. The fingertip was surgically amputated.

First Company Commercial Maintenance

An employee was using a Johnson bar to pry a piece of concrete with the help of a skid steer. When the bar moved, the employee was struck in the mouth by it, resulting in a tooth avulsion and a mouth injury that required stitches.

Saia

An employee was helping another employee pick up a round piece of metal to recoup a skid. The metal slipped and lacerated the employee's right middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

HUB Foundation Co., Inc.

An employee was attaching a wrench to a drill rig rod. The wrench turned and struck the employee's right hand, resulting in a laceration and fracture to their index finger.

IVEY ROOFING

An employee was climbing a ladder while carrying 12-foot metal trims to the roof. As the top end of the metal rose above the parapet wall of the roof, a strong gust of wind spun the metal backward, causing the employee to lose his grip on the metal. The trims lacerated his left wrist, which required hospitalization and surgery.

Recyleit

An employee was stepping down from his truck when he slipped and fell, twisting his ankle. The employee's ankle was fractured and he was hospitalized.

Progressive Recycling LLC

An employee was working on a loading ramp that was stuck open (upright). The employee went under the ramp to release it. When he pulled on a chain that was holding the ramp open, the ramp came down rapidly, striking the right side of his face (cheek) and the right side of his neck. The employee was hospitalized.

WM Recycle America, L.L.C.

An employee was cutting off bracing from an 8 x 12' metal wall when the wall fell, striking the employee on their side and back. The employee sustained bruised ribs and two fractures in their back.

Waste Pro of Florida, Inc.

An employee was collecting trash on a residential garbage route. He became weak and unwell and was hospitalized, suffering from heat exhaustion.

Quantum BioPower

A driver was climbing the rear trailer ladder to facilitate tarping when they lost balance, slipped, and fell approximately 6-8 feet to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured wrist.

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.