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

Celebration Fireworks, Inc.

Explosion, n.e.c. · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Celebration Fireworks, Inc., 7911 7th Street, SLATINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA 18080 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

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An employee was installing electronic matches in 4-inch ground burst fireworks when they exploded and amputated her fingers.

Hospitalized Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Pyrotechnics, fireworks

Freehold Cartage Inc

An employee was sitting in the cab of the truck while waste oxidizer was being offloaded. The waste reacted with the receiving tank and an explosion occurred in the tank. Fire traveled through the hose to the tanker truck, causing it to explode. The employee jumped from the burning truck and was hospitalized with burns to his face, chest, and arms.

Complete Fire Protection Inc.

An employee was installing piping and valves for fire protection systems in the vicinity of an electrical meter outside of a new warehouse. The meter exploded, causing burns to the employee's face and arms.

MI Metals, Inc.

An employee was pouring molten aluminum into a drain pot. The aluminum touched moisture at the bottom of the drain pot and an explosion occurred. The employee sustained burns to their face, hands, and legs.

Range Environmental Resources

An employee was operating an oxygen-deficient oven that required manual ignition to make charcoal from wood. As the oven was opened, oxygen was introduced to the environment, resulting in an explosion. The employee sustained head trauma as well as fractures to the arms and legs.

RKM Fireworks Company

An employee was setting up the electrical parts for a fireworks display. They were inserting an e-match when it generated friction with something else. A 3-inch firework shell ignited, injuring the employee's hand and head.

Manitou & Pikes Peak Cog Railway

An employee was directing guest traffic in the parking lot when they were attacked by a member of the public, resulting in injuries that required hospitalization.

Camelback Mountain Resort Inc.

An employee was loading snow guns and jacks onto a dump-style truck. The truck was parked on an incline and the door closed on the employee. The employee was hospitalized for contusions and a lacerated liver.

PTT Services LLC

An employee was working in the valet booth with the door locked when three individuals broke down the door. The individuals attacked and robbed him. The employee was hospitalized with a concussion, fractured facial bones, a bruised rib, and a bruised leg bone.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

During aerial practice, an employee fell 25 feet from custom aerial straps and landed on the ice skating rink below. The employee sustained fractures to both wrists and her lower and upper jaw. She also lost one tooth and two front teeth became loose.

Winter4Kids

A ski instructor was teaching skiing/snowboarding when a student on a snowboard crashed into them. The employee was hospitalized with broken bones that required surgery.

Main Line Clinical Labs

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Ardent Mills

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

Zimmerman & Herr

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

McAneny Brothers, Inc.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

Metz Culinary Management LLC

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.