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

AWS Inc.

Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Cuts, lacerations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at AWS Inc., 54 Hannaford Drive, SOUTH PORTLAND, MAINE 04106 on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

An employee was using a pallet jack to select product and pinned his hand between the jack handle and the rack. Surgery was performed on the employee's left pinky finger to repair a cut tendon.

Hospitalized Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Pallet jack-powered

AWS, INC.

An employee operating a pallet jack turned a corner and his foot was caught between a rack and the pallet jack. The employee sustained a fracture to the top of the left foot and fractured toes.

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UNFI

An employee was on a double-end rider in an aisle selecting product when his left leg was pinned between the rack and rider.

Royal Oak Recycling - Pittsburgh, LLC

An employee was using a forklift to load a tractor trailer when the forklift skidded into a wall. The employee sustained an arm fracture.

Dollar General - Perishable Distribution Center

An employee was training on an rolling container carrier on the dry, non-frozen storage side of the distribution center. She made a turn around the end cap and her right foot struck the rail protecting the endcap racking. The employee's foot was fractured.

DLV Hamptons Management LLC

An employee was a passenger in a utility vehicle that was driving up a hill on a wooded trail. As the vehicle made a right turn, three fingers on the employee's right hand were caught against a tree and fractured.

DG Fresh Distribution AL, LLC

An employee was operating a forklift when his left leg was caught between the forklift and a bollard resulting in a broken leg.

Sysco Gulf Coast, LLC

An employee was traveling down the maintenance aisle of a warehouse on a single-pallet front rider jack. The jack malfunctioned, causing the brakes to apply; the employee fell forward onto the concrete warehouse floor. The employee suffered an injury to the left leg and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Lineage Logistics Holdings, LLC

An employee was restocking a refrigerated area of a warehouse when he slipped on condensation and fell to the floor, resulting in a fractured hip.

Giant Eagle Inc.

An employee was operating a double pallet jack. While he was pushing a pallet back, the pallet jack moved and the handle crushed his finger against racking.

Gordon Food Service, LLC

An employee was struck by a pallet that fell from an empty pallet storage bay. The employee sustained a dislocated shoulder.

Anchor Gate N Spring, Inc.

An employee was offloading tools from a van and walking them over to the curb. He lost his footing and fell while carrying a jackhammer. The jackhammer fell and caught the employee's right little finger against the curb. The employee's finger was amputated.

HB Fleming, Inc.

A crew was installing drilled micropiles alongside an outdoor covered deck foundation. The injured employee was working the front of the drill when a loose section of casing dropped onto the tip of a rig wrench and pulled the wrench down to an embedded casing. The employee's left little finger was caught between the rig wrench and the embedded casing and was amputated above the top knuckle.

GERRITY INDUSTRIES

Two employees were working to change a tire on a mobile slasher saw. The slasher weighs around 2,000 pounds and is towed. Employee 2 was lifting the saw while the injured employee was placing a block of wood under the frame for support. The slasher then lowered onto the block and the injured employee's left thumb was crushed between the slasher frame and the wood block, leading to an amputation at the first knuckle.

O&P Glass

An employee was using a metal shear when it amputated the tip of his right index finger.

Cives Steel Company New England

An employee was using a crane to move a 44-foot, 3,343-pound I-beam. As the beam was moving west, it straightened out (north to south), beginning to swing south toward the northwest corner of a building. The crane then sent the beam southward, directly toward the corner of the building. The beam caught the tips of the employee's left index, middle, and ring fingers against the building. The last joints of the middle and ring fingers were amputated, and the last joint of the index finger was partially crushed.

Longroad Energy

An employee was standing on a step stool, removing the nuts and bolts from the frame of a solar panel that was being replaced. The employee's cheek made contact with a connector with damaged insulation. The employee was shocked, briefly lost consciousness, and fell to the ground, suffering an injury to the left shoulder.