Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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Foster farms

Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Foster farms, 6648 La-15, FARMERVILLE, LOUISIANA 71241 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

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An employee was repairing a photo sensor on a pallet wrapper. As he was lowering the top plate onto the machine, the plate dropped onto one of his fingers, amputating the fingertip.

Hospitalized Amputation Fingertip(s) Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.

Southern Metal Processing Company, Inc.

An employee was trying to move a pressure vessel when it fell over. A stud on the top of the vessel struck and gouged the employee's stomach.

Alro Steel Corporation

An employee was standing a steel bar on its edge when the bar fell onto his left hand, resulting in a middle fingertip amputation.

Olive Garden Holdings, LLC

An employee was unloading the dishwasher and dropped a glass, resulting in a left hand laceration that required hospitalization.

Amys Kitchen Inc

An employee was removing a jam from a blancher. As he went to remove the blade, he dropped it, lacerating his leg.

Downs Racing, L.P.

An employee was mounting a TV when they dropped it. The employee suffered a partial amputation of the left index finger.

Select Genetics LLC

On July 23, 2025, at 8:00 a.m., an employee was power washing. He went to retrieve a power-washing tip from the machine's fan while it was in operation and the fan blade contacted his right index finger, severing it at the distal joint.

Dedicated Poultry Service

An employee was pulling two separate egg racks when the wheels of the front rack locked, causing the second rack to crush his thumb between both of the racks. The employee sustained an amputation to the tip of the right thumb.

Cooper Farms Inc

An employee was in the pump room troubleshooting a pump. He unscrewed the top panel of the pump and inadvertently hit the toggle switch that activated the pump. The internal belt caught his right index finger, causing a laceration that resulted in a partial surgical amputation.

Wayne Farms LLC Hatchery

An employee was attaching a winch hook to a chick pallet. The winch was activated via remote control and pinched the employee's left index fingertip between the hook and pallet resulting in amputation.

Cal Maine Foods, Inc.

An employee was repairing a water pump on a lawn mower. He replaced the water pump and thermometer and then went to test drive it. The mower started running hot, so he brought it back to the shop and opened the hood on the mower. The radiator overflowed the bottle, the lid blew off, and hot coolant sprayed the employee's face, eyes, and neck. The employee was hospitalized for burns.

Kisatchie Midnight Express

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

Jean Simpson Personnel Services, Inc.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

Calvary Industries Inc

An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.