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

Heritage Hardwood Floors, Inc.

Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Heritage Hardwood Floors, Inc., 669 Nordyke Road, CINCINNATI, OHIO 45255 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

An employee was installing a wood floor. While ripping a piece of wood on a table saw the employee's fingers contacted the saw blade causing amputation injuries to two fingers.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Table saws

Leidy's LLC

An employee was operating a band saw when his right little fingertip was amputated.

Swift Beef Company

An employee was operating a strip saw. As the employee shut off the saw, their right index and middle fingertips were amputated by the blade before it came to a complete stop.

Kitchen Tune-Up

An employee was using a table saw to cut a piece of wood for wall framing. The wood jumped, causing the employee's hand to move toward the saw, amputating their left index finger and causing a laceration on their hand.

BBCJ LUMBER LLC

An employee was operating a trim saw. While trying to free a jammed board she had just cut, she came into contact with the running saw blade, which amputated her right thumb.

Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc.

An employee was using a shaper to cut wood when their right hand contacted the blade, resulting in a partial amputation to the right ring finger.

Ruggieri Bros. Inc.

An employee was mixing self-leveling cement when his hand was caught in a mixer. He suffered a partial amputation to his left middle finger, as well as a laceration to his buttocks.

Refuse Materials, Inc.

An employee was working to pull open the stuck door of a concrete slurry container. The door sprang open and struck the employee in the lower jaw, causing a laceration and fracture to the jaw.

Flooring World of Florida, LLC

An employee was stepping backward through a framed wall when they tripped over the base metal track and fell to the ground, resulting in a broken arm.

Gato Flooring

An employee fell off a 5-gallon bucket and an exposed pipe lacerated his bicep. The employee was hospitalized.

Stages St Louis

An electric crew was unloading a lighting instrument rack (approximately 400-500 pounds) from a box truck when one of the wheels rolled off the lift gate and the rack tipped over, falling onto the injured employee's right leg. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured tibia and required surgery.

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.