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

THE JEL SERT CO.

Standing, standing up-single episode · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at THE JEL SERT CO., HIGHWAY 59 AND CONDE STREET, WEST CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60185 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the lumbar region.

An employee was searching for a tool under a maintenance work table. He suffered lower back pain when getting up off the lowered position with bent knees.

Hospitalized Lumbar region Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker

The Jel Sert Co.

An employee was guiding film into a pouch-filling machine while the machine was jogging and the employee's right index finger contacted the cutting blade, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

The Jel Sert Co.

Two employees were building pallets using reworked product. They collided as one of them stepped back and the other turned around. The injured employee fell on his right side, sustaining injuries to the right knee and hip. He was hospitalized and underwent surgery.

The Jel Sert Co.

An employee was unjamming a machine when the machine blades amputated her right middle and ring fingers at the first knuckle. The machine was guarded at the time.

The Jel Sert Co.

On July 24, 2021, at 4:15 p.m., an employee and a co-worker were verifying prior work done on a machine. The employee had his hand in the freezer bar sealer area when the co-worker activated the machine by opening the air valve that powered the sealer. The sealer then closed on the employee's right hand, resulting in an open fracture and an amputation of the middle fingertip.

The Jel Sert Co.

An employee was turning a box and lifting it to prevent it from stacking incorrectly on a palletizer. As he lifted the box, his right ring finger touched the palletizer's moving conveyor belt and suffered an amputation.

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The Wendy's Company

A Wendy's employee was conducting dishwashing procedures at a dedicated dishwashing sink in the kitchen area. The employee heard an audible "pop" from their hip region and experienced hip pain. The employee was hospitalized with a femoral neck fracture.

Oxford Development Company

An employee suffered a back injury while getting up from his desk chair.

Trulieve Holyoke Holdings LLC

After bending over to pick up a computer mouse, an employee straightened up and felt severe back pain. He was hospitalized.

Deciem USA LLC

An employee was bent forward at the waist placing boxes inside a gaylord container and adjusting the positioning of the boxes to organize them better. The employee stood up and felt pain in the lower back.

U.S. Home Corporation

An employee was removing debris from the ground when they stood up and sustained a hernia.

Blue Bell Creameries, L. P.

An employee was using an end mill to mill out a section of a metal door frame that he was fabricating. Metal shavings built up and he could not see the marking to cut, so he used a small brush to remove the shavings. While brushing off the shavings, his glove became caught in the spinning mill bit and pulled his hand in. The employee's right index finger contacted the spinning bit, resulting in a partial amputation to the side of the finger.

DFA Dairy Brands Ice Cream, LLC

An employee was unjamming cookie dough from a machine when the rotating pump caught her left index and ring fingers, resulting in fingertip amputations.

The Ziegenfelder Company, Inc.

An employee was marking a malfunctioning mold when their finger got caught between one section of rollers on the mold and the guarding on the next section of rollers. The employee's finger was amputated below the nailbed.

Hershey Creamery Company

An employee was exiting the rear door of a freezer truck when he slipped/misstepped and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a broken right leg that required surgery.

Hiland Dairy

An employee was palletizing ice cream when his fingers got caught in a chain and sprocket, resulting in amputations of the middle and ring fingers.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.