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

GREEN CIRCLE GROWERS, INC.

Pedestrian struck by vehicle backing up in nonroadway area · Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at GREEN CIRCLE GROWERS, INC., 51051 US HWY. 20, OBERLIN, OHIO 44074 on — Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury, affecting the lower leg(s).

A tow tractor struck an employee, pinning her against another tow tractor. She suffered an injury to her lower left leg and was hospitalized.

Hospitalized Lower leg(s) Industrial vehicle, material hauling and transport-powered, n.e.c

GREEN CIRCLE GROWERS, INC.

On February 8, 2024, an employee was using a ladder to reach a roof to repair a hole. The employee fell from the ladder to the ground, suffered a back injury, and was hospitalized.

Green Circle Growers, Inc.

On November 4, 2021, an employee attempted to unbolt a lamp post that was attached to a pulley system and tethered to a forklift. While the load was suspended, the employee reached under the lamp post to remove a nut and bolt. The load shifted and the lamp post landed on the employee's hand crushing their fingers and resulting in a partial finger amputation.

Green Circle Growers, Inc.

On November 25, 2020, an employee was trying to reach an upper conveyor belt to fix a jam. The employee's foot contacted the moving lower conveyor belt and his leg was pulled between a metal support bar for the conveyor and the chain of the conveyor belt resulting in a broken leg.

GREEN CIRCLE GROWERS, INC.

An employee was climbing a fixed ladder to access an overhead crane to perform work. The crane was still energized. When the employee touched the crane, it shocked him, causing him to fall to the ground below. He suffered a fractured back and collapsed lung.

GREEN CIRCLE GROWERS, INC.

On August 8, 2017, an employee was operating a tugger vehicle when the employee's left foot was caught and fractured between a post and the cart.

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Bauducco Foods, Inc.

An employee was walking in an aisle when a forklift backed up over her foot, resulting in a skin injury that required surgery to repair.

S. H. Bell Company

An employee was looking into the bucket of a front-end loader to see how much material was in it. A skid steer backed into the employee, who then fell into the edge of the front loader's bucket and suffered internal bleeding in the abdominal area.

SHM Newport Shipyard, LLC

An employee was spotting for a forklift operation. The forklift backed over the employee, who suffered a complete amputation to one lower leg and a partial amputation to the other leg. The employee was hospitalized.

Oil City Iron Works, Inc.

An employee was cleaning his work area and preparing it to begin making air-set molds when a nearby forklift that was backing out from a load swung around and struck the employee. They sustained a lower left leg fracture.

Canyon Falls Farms

An employee was walking around a work area when he was struck by a forklift that was backing up, resulting in several broken bones in his foot.

Vera's Nursery Inc

An employee had finished applying pesticide in an area. As he walked away, he slipped; he did not fall, but suffered a lower back sprain.

Riverview Flower Farm Inc

An employee was cutting 2-by-4s using a table saw. The wood jammed in the saw, kicked back, and struck him, causing an open fracture to his left ring finger.

Natural Beauty Growers, LLC

An employee was ascending an extension ladder to clip the end of a shade cloth when they fell 8 feet from the ladder to the concrete ground. The employee sustained a knee injury.

Natural Beauty Growers, LLC

An employee was merchandising plants at the garden center. She was unloading the top rack of the cart when it tipped onto her and injured her spleen, requiring surgery.

GREEN CIRCLE GROWERS, INC.

On February 8, 2024, an employee was using a ladder to reach a roof to repair a hole. The employee fell from the ladder to the ground, suffered a back injury, and was hospitalized.

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.