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

Huhtamaki, Inc.

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

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Huhtamaki, Inc., 4000 Commerce Center Drive, FRANKLIN, OHIO 45005 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was attempting to clean a printing machine roller when the employee's finger entered a pinch point, resulting in a fingertip amputation. The roller was unguarded at the time.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Printing machinery and equipment, unspecified

Huhtamaki Inc

An employee was removing a step cam by with a sledgehammer when a piece of the cam broke off, fell, and struck his right forearm.

Huhtamaki, Inc.

An employee was folding scrap paper wrap. The employee placed the paper on the floor and folded it over before stepping on the paper to flatten it. When they stepped on the paper, they slipped and fell to the floor, twisting their right ankle. The employee was hospitalized with a broken ankle that required surgery.

Huhtamaki, Inc.

An employee was troubleshooting a broken belt on a beveling machine when his left index finger was caught in a partially guarded chain and sprocket mechanism, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation just below the fingernail.

Huhtamaki, Inc.

An employee was watching maintenance employees remove a roller from a forming shaft when a piece of steel broke off and impaled the employee in the abdomen.

Huhtamaki, Inc.

An employee was working in a cup production area, performing heavy work in a hot area when they began to experience stomach cramps and vision loss. The employee was hospitalized for heat-related illness.

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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.

Rand-Whitney Mid-Atlantic

An employee was resetting a slitter machine's counter when their left hand was crushed under two rotating score shafts. The employee sustained amputations to three fingers on their left hand.

Triad Packaging, Inc.

An employee went to retrieve dunnage for a co-worker when his right hand became caught in the rollers on the box transfer conveyor. The employee sustained a partial amputation to his middle fingertip.

International Paper

An employee was working in the converting area installing a glue tote, and became ill from the heat. The employee sustained heat exhaustion.

Blue Ridge Paper Products LLC

An employee was troubleshooting a mini-feeder. As the employee was tapping the rotating drive chain with an Allen wrench, the employee's right hand came into contact with the chain. The employee suffered partial amputations, lacerations, and fractures to the middle and ring fingers. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident.

Rand-Whitney Mid-Atlantic

An employee was between two sections of a printer when they sustained amputations to three fingertips on their right hand from the running print rolls.

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.