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

Panera Bread

Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Panera Bread, 1203 Brown St, DAYTON, OHIO 45409 on — Puncture wounds, except gunshot wounds, affecting the forearm(s).

An employee was handling a knife when it punctured his left forearm.

Hospitalized Forearm(s) Knives, unspecified or n.e.c.

Panera Bread

An employee was on a ladder that was on a counter changing a light bulb on the ceiling. As he descended the ladder, he fell sideways with the ladder and struck his head on the floor.

Panera Bread

While making sandwiches, an employee sustained a laceration on her left hand from a knife. The employee was hospitalized.

Panera Bread

After a five-hour shift washing dishes, an employee developed pain, irritation, and extreme reddening in the hands. He was hospitalized.

Panera Bread

An employee was using a spiral slicer. The blade contacted the employee's thumb and amputated the tip.

Panera Bread

An employee was cutting bagels with a bagel slicer. The slicer blade amputated the tip of his right ring finger.

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Mako Contracting, LLC

An employee was using a saw to cut a piece of concrete when the piece gave way and pushed the saw into the employee's leg. The employee's leg was lacerated, requiring stitches and hospitalization.

East Penn Manufacturing

An employee was using a utility knife to cut honeycomb paper when the knife amputated their left index fingertip.

Ash Brothers Fireplace and Chimney Co

An employee was cleaning a resident's chimney. While using a drill, the employee's glove became caught in the drill and their finger was fractured.

RPM & Associates Inc

An employee was grinding some hardfacing on a bulldozer blade when the 9-inch grinder kicked back and lacerated his left leg above the knee. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Tenaris Hickman

An employee was operating a rotating tool to place thread protectors on the end of pipe. Her left hand was on the rotating part of the tool when the tool engaged, resulting in a left forearm fracture and a thumb laceration.

Ampler Pizza II LLC

An employee was shot in the leg with a pistol during an altercation with two people who had entered the store without permission.

Cellar Crew LLC

An employee was filtering a fryer with a fryer filter machine. After going around the corner and then returning to the fryers, the employee stepped into the filter machine. The hot oil burned the employee's right ankle, and the employee was hospitalized.

GPS Hospitality, LLC

A maintenance employee fell from a ladder while changing a light bulb. The employee landed on a dining room floor and suffered fractured vertebrae.

Invited Clubs USA, Inc

An employee was kneeling on the ground while painting in a hotel area. He felt a prick, then overnight had a lot of pain, irritation, and some swelling. The employee was hospitalized with an infection in his knee.

Quality Drive In, LLC

A contractor was performing maintenance on a fryer when it tipped over, causing hot oil to splash onto the injured employee, who was nearby. The injured employee suffered burns that required hospitalization.

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.