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

Delta Steel and Tube Inc

Struck by shifting load during transport, nonroadway · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Delta Steel and Tube Inc, 410 Gerrard Drive, FLORENCE, ALABAMA 35630 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

An employee was operating a forklift to dump a scrap bin when the bin slid off the forks and partially amputated his left pinky finger.

Hospitalized Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

AMERISTAR APARTMENT SERVICES, L.P.

On October 26, 2023, an employee was riding on the forks of a forklift that was moving a stack of glass panels. The forklift made a turn and the glass fell on the injured employee, causing lacerations and crush injuries to their hands.

SMITH FLOORING

An employee was on a tractor and moving a stack of lumber when a board shot out from the stack and struck the employee's right leg. Their tibia was fractured and required surgery.

Jillamy Packaging and Warehouse

An employee was using a powered industrial vehicle (PIV) equipped with specialized horizontal clamps to move multiple heavy paper rolls. The top roll came loose from the clamps, falling towards the cab of the lift and lacerating the employee's middle and ring fingers.

Postel Erections Group, L.L.C.

An employee was helping a forklift operator move a steel joist. The joist struck a forklift tire, and as the forklift started to move, the joist shifted and struck the employee's right leg, resulting in a fracture.

AAA Cooper Transportation

An employee was using a pallet jack to move product from a truck to a customer location. A box on the top of the pallet shifted while the pallet was going over the bump of a dock plate and fell on the employee s head. Afterward, the employee experienced numbness in their limbs.

Vallourec Star, LP

An employee fell onto a hot billet and suffered a burn to the left leg. The employee was hospitalized.

The Tube Fabrication Company, Inc.

An employee was cutting wooden boards using a table saw when the glove on his left hand was caught by the blade, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation.

Hanna Steel Corporation

An employee was placing a board on top of a bundle of steel tubing. A crane was moving a bundle of steel that struck the employee and caught them against another bundle of steel tubing. The employee sustained a crushing injury and hematoma to the right upper leg.

Bull Moose Tube Company

A crane was hoisting a pipe. An employee was adjusting twisted lifting chains on the end of the pipe when the pipe was raised, causing the employee's hands to be caught between the chains and the pipe. The employee suffered injuries to the left index finger, left ring finger, right ring finger, and right index finger; the right index fingertip was amputated without bone loss.

Tex-Tube Company

During a routine inspection, an employee placed their hand on a pipe to check a weld. The pipe clamp activated, closed on the pipe, and trapped the employee's right middle finger, resulting in a partial amputation and fracture to the fingertip as well as a laceration to the ring finger.

Sysco Gulf Coast, LLC

An employee was traveling down the maintenance aisle of a warehouse on a single-pallet front rider jack. The jack malfunctioned, causing the brakes to apply; the employee fell forward onto the concrete warehouse floor. The employee suffered an injury to the left leg and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

Norflex, Inc.

An employee was operating a metal roller machine to roll a small piece of metal. The employee's right index finger became caught between the metal and the machine, and the fingertip was amputated.

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.

Birdsong Corporation

An employee was directing a truck driver to a dump site when the truck's peanut trailer slipped off the kingpin. As the trailer fell, a ladder attached to it lacerated the employee's ear. The employee was hospitalized.

Pilgrims

An employee was unloading a forklift from a trailer to the ground. The employee was climbing down the ladder of the trailer when their foot slipped through one of the rungs, causing them to fall backward onto the forklift forks. The employee was hospitalized for fractured ribs.