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

Independent Can Company, Inc.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Independent Can Company, Inc., 1650 Capstone Way, VANDALIA, OHIO 45377 on — Amputations, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.

An employee was attempting to clear a jam from a press machine when the press came down and amputated part of the employee's right hand.

Amputation Hand(s), unspecified Presses, except printing, unspecified

DGS Import, LLC

An employee was changing a saw blade when the saw machine activated. The employee's left ring and little fingers were amputated.

Millennium Mat Company

An employee was clearing a jam from the label cutting machine when their left middle finger was partially amputated.

Bauer Foundation Corp.

Two employees were repairing the hydraulic engagement pins on a rented front-end wheel loader. The machine controls were activated to move the attachment pins and an employee's finger was caught between the pins and the bushings. Their right index finger was partially amputated.

Guggisberg Cheese, Inc.

An employee was cleaning the conveyor on a piece of equipment when they slipped and their right hand was pulled into the chain sprocket. The employee's fifth fingertip was amputated.

Alsco Inc.

An employee was throwing blankets onto a blanket folding and stacking machine. A blanket got stuck in the machine and she attempted to remove it when the machine contacted her right little finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Ohio Art Metal Pack, LLC

An employee was clearing a jam on a ring press. The press's secondary switch was activated, engaging it. It caught the employee's hand. The employee was hospitalized and sustained the amputation of two fingers. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident.

BWAY Corporation

An employee was adjusting an air line on a scroll shear when a rotating gear caught his right ring finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

METAL CONTAINER CORPORATION

An employee was checking a conveyor belt chain when his right index finger came into contact with the moving chain. He suffered a partial amputation to the right index finger.

CROWN CORK & SEAL CO. INC.

On April 1, 2025, at 9:45 p.m. an employee's arm was pulled into a lathe and fractured. The employee was hospitalized.

Bway Corporation

A paint room operator's hand was caught in the exit conveyor of an automated paint booth, resulting in a left middle finger amputation.

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.