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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Fed Ex Ground

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Fed Ex Ground, 6840 Pontius Road, GROVEPORT, OHIO 43125 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

An employee was unloading small packages from a conveyor belt when his right thumb was caught and amputated between the belt and the roller.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Conveyors-belt

Fed Ex Ground

An employee was unloading a trailer and had rolled up carpet in his arm. As he was walking away, the employee tripped on a load net and sustained a rib fracture and punctured kidney that required hospitalization.

Fed Ex Ground

An employee was unloading boxes from a trailer. A box fell and lacerated his head.

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An employee was walking into the facility when they slipped on any icy/wet floor and fell, resulting in a fractured right ankle.

Fed Ex Ground

An employee got out of his truck and walked to the back of its trailer when he was pinned between the trailer and 28-foot truck, resulting in injuries to his pancreas and liver.

FED EX GROUND

An employee was moving a set of rollers. The crossbar fell off the rollers and struck the employee's toe, causing its amputation.

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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.

Groendyke Transport, Inc.

A truck driver was preparing a hose to load a chemical tanker trailer with sulfuric acid when sulfuric acid splashed the left side of their face and neck, causing skin burns.

Highway Transport Chemical, LLC

An employee was disconnecting steam lines from a bulk liquid trailer. He disconnected a steam line located on a vapor recovery line when hot steam blew back onto him, resulting in burns to the left side of his abdomen, as well as his left arm and leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Proficient Auto Inc

An employee was driving a truck when it lost power. He pulled over, opened the hood, checked the engine, and opened the radiator cap. Pressure in the radiator caused hot fluid to spew over the employee, who suffered second-degree burns to the left arm, hand, and leg.

Ryder Integrated Logistics Inc

An employee was pulling apart pallets that were stuck together when they felt pain in their stomach. The employee was hospitalized with a hernia.

Keen Transport, Inc.

An employee was getting out of a truck tractor when he fell to the ground. He suffered a broken left femur.

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.