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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

PAC Worldwide Corporation

Entangled in other object or equipment · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at PAC Worldwide Corporation, 3131 Cincinnati Dayon Rd, MIDDLETOWN, OHIO 45044 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

The employee was standing on a catwalk and using a cord tied to his hands to remove an empty film roll from a machine. The cord got caught in a roller beneath the catwalk and amputated the employee's left ring and index fingers.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Ropes, ties, chains, unspecified

PAC Worldwide Corporation

A maintenance employee was repairing the labeler on the line when it fell on their head, resulting in a broken jaw.

PAC Worldwide Corporation

On September 23, 2024, an employee was filling a hot glue tank with glue pellets when he sustained second- and third-degree burns to four fingers on his right hand. The employee was not wearing personal protective equipment at the time.

PAC Worldwide Corporation

An employee was rewebbing a machine when their right little finger was caught in a nip roller and amputated. The machine was not locked out at the time.

PAC Worldwide Corporation

An employee reached into an ingoing nip point and suffered a fractured finger.

PAC Worldwide Corporation

An employee was adjusting a film roller in a vacuum forming machine. The employee was pulled into the machine, and all four fingers and part of the thumb on the employee's left hand were amputated.

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ATB Renovations, Inc.

On November 9, 2023, an employee was removing plywood from the west face of a basement level buck hoist to prepare to dismantle one of the cabs. When the employee pulled on the plywood, it fell and pulled a rope that partially amputated the employee's thumb.

Systems MEC LLC

An employee was holding a rigging line and assisting in the removal of an old light pole from its base. When the load was lifted by a forklift, it shifted. The tag line lifted the employee off the ground and propelled him through the air. The employee landed on the ground and sustained back fractures.

Liberty Tire Recycling, LLC

An employee was performing maintenance on a bucket truck when his right hand became caught in some rope, causing amputations to three fingers down to the first knuckle.

Hensel Phelps Construction Co.

An employee was conducting a fall rescue demonstration. A 165-pound demonstration dummy was released from a height, putting tension on the lanyard. The employee's left hand, little finger, and thumb were caught in the wire rope lanyard, resulting in a medical amputation of the left little finger as well as lacerations to the left thumb.

Ace Fluid Solutions

An employee was using a crank and cable to lower a light tower due to windy conditions. The light shaft became hung up and released the tension in the cable, which wrapped around the employee's left hand, resulting in amputations of three fingers.

Inteplast Group

An employee was removing plastic material from a production line when the machine cycled and amputated his left index, ring, and little fingers.

Primex Plastics Corporation

An employee was using straps to secure a load inside a transport trailer. The employee was standing on a stack of finished goods that was three pallets high. Each pallet was 16 inches high. He was walking from the stack of three pallets onto a stack of two pallets when he lost his balance and fell onto another stack of finished goods (that was two pallets high) and then landed on the floor of the trailer. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs.

Sealed Air

An employee was unclogging a resin sifting machine. The rotary sifter's automatic system activated and the sifter blade struck the employee's fingertip, causing an avulsion. The fingertip was medically amputated.

Sigma Extruding Corp.

An employee was helping to remove a roll of plastic from a line when the tail stock on the machine snapped back and caught the employee's right middle fingertip, resulting in a partial amputation.

MULTIVAC

An employee was investigating a possible issue with a piece of equipment when the equipment started and amputated his left index fingertip.

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.