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

WENNER BREAD PRODUCTS, Inc.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Cuts, lacerations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at WENNER BREAD PRODUCTS, Inc., 571 Jersey Ave., NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY 08901 on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

An employee was removing bread from equipment when the equipment caught and lacerated her right index finger. The equipment was unguarded.

Hospitalized Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified

Wenner Bread Products Inc.

An employee was using a 6-ft. self-supporting fiberglass ladder to remove light fixtures. He was working from the top step when the ladder kicked out from under him and he fell approximately 5 ft. to the ground. The employee sustained a fractured left ankle and a compressed L-4 vertebra disk.

WENNER BREAD PRODUCTS, Inc.

An employee was repairing a water heat exchange. When the water valves were turned on, a PVC pipe burst and hot water struck the employee's face, ear, back and leg.

WENNER BREAD PRODUCTS, Inc.

An employee tripped and fell while climbing over a conveyor, striking the wall and suffering a shoulder injury.

Wenner Bread Products, Inc.

An employee was setting up a production machine. While adjusting parts, a hand was caught in the running machine resulting in injuries to the right hand.

Wenner Bread Products, Inc.

An employee working on a production line in the Parbake Plant amputated three fingertips on his left hand while trying to unjam equipment.

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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.

New Horizon Baking

An employee (who had recently walked through water accumulated on the floor) slipped and fell to the floor. The employee suffered a broken right wrist and right elbow and was hospitalized, requiring surgery.

David's Cookies

An employee was performing maintenance on a production line, requiring a testing and positioning phase for the whipped cream dispensers. The employee was positioning the dispensers using wrenches when one of the sensors was triggered by the pie pans coming down the line. The depositor heads lowered and pinched the employee's left ring finger, resulting in an amputated fingertip. The whipped cream dispensers were not guarded at the time and the line was not locked out/tagged out.

Up at Dawn, Inc.

During a line changeover, an employee was rinsing a depositor with water. The employee was working to remove a piece of chocolate, stuck in the machine's roller, when the roller's moving parts caught his middle finger. He suffered an amputation to the fingertip with bone loss.

Alfred Nickles Bakery Inc.

An employee was emptying a trash can into a dumpster. He tripped while turning around, fell over a rail onto the concrete floor, and broke bones in his back and wrist.

Highland Baking Company, Inc.

During a changeover, an employee was wiping down the dough chunker machine and the chunker closed on his left hand. The employee sustained crushing/laceration injuries, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.