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

NEPW Logistics

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at NEPW Logistics, 16 Parkway Drive, SCARBOROUGH, MAINE 04070 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

An employee was attempting to sand the edge of a paper roll in a paper winder when the employee's finger was caught and partially amputated in a pinch point. The winder was unguarded at the time.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Slitters, winders-paper production

Pall Corporation

An employee was operating a machine when a wire pulled his right glove resulting in amputation of the index and middle fingertips.

Koch Foods of Cincinnati

An employee was grinding chicken when their right index fingertip was caught in the grinder and amputated.

Stella-Jones Corporation

An employee was sharpening peeler blades when their shirt was caught in the grinding wheel. The employee sustained tendon damage and a crushed right hand.

Mack Manufacturing, Inc.

An employee was passing through a large metal door when the door closed on the employee, resulting in a cracked rib.

Nutmeg Container Corporation

An employee was preparing to cut lumber on a panel saw when the clamp engaged and caught the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Moore, A Series LLC

An employee was clearing a jam and cleaning up loose paper. Her left hand was caught by a rotating cylinder and pulled into the score section in the tower of an envelope machine. Her hand was crushed and multiple fingers were amputated.

Specialty Quality Packaging, LLC

An employee's hand was inside a machine when residual energy caused a heavy metal part to fall on their hand. The employee sustained a left index finger amputation.

Huhtamaki, Inc.

An employee was troubleshooting a broken belt on a beveling machine when his left index finger was caught in a partially guarded chain and sprocket mechanism, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation just below the fingernail.

Zellwin Farms Company

On March 28, 2025, an employee was changing a printer blanket and got caught by the printer's rollers resulting in amputation of their left index finger.

Priority Envelope Inc

An employee was cutting paper using a cutting die machine when three fingertips on his right hand were amputated by the cutting die.

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.