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

Coaster Co of America

Part of occupant s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident · Crushing injuries

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Coaster Co of America, 255 Wille Rd., DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS 60018 on — Crushing injuries, affecting the foot (feet), unspecified.

An employee was operating an electric pallet jack when it hit a rack. His right foot was crushed between the pallet jack and the rack, requiring hospitalization.

Hospitalized Foot (feet), unspecified Pallet jack-powered

UNFI

An employee was on a double-end rider in an aisle selecting product when his left leg was pinned between the rack and rider.

Royal Oak Recycling - Pittsburgh, LLC

An employee was using a forklift to load a tractor trailer when the forklift skidded into a wall. The employee sustained an arm fracture.

Dollar General - Perishable Distribution Center

An employee was training on an rolling container carrier on the dry, non-frozen storage side of the distribution center. She made a turn around the end cap and her right foot struck the rail protecting the endcap racking. The employee's foot was fractured.

DLV Hamptons Management LLC

An employee was a passenger in a utility vehicle that was driving up a hill on a wooded trail. As the vehicle made a right turn, three fingers on the employee's right hand were caught against a tree and fractured.

DG Fresh Distribution AL, LLC

An employee was operating a forklift when his left leg was caught between the forklift and a bollard resulting in a broken leg.

Ashley Furniture Industries, LLC

An employee was riding a pallet jack toward the breakroom when the pallet jack struck an order picker and the employee's foot was fractured.

Ashley Furniture Industries, LLC

On September 13, 2024, the injured employee was walking through an aisle where a co-worker was removing pallets from the racking system using an order picker. The corner of a pallet being moved contacted the corner of a skid next to it, causing two empty pallets to fall 12 to 16 feet from the racking onto the injured employee. The employee sustained a laceration and contusions to the back of their head and left shoulder.

Woodhaven Furniture Industries, LLC

An employee was operating a panel saw. The machine malfunctioned and the employee went behind it to try and fix it. When he adjusted a valve, the machine activated and moved forward trapping him between the beam and the wood preparing to load. The employee sustained fractured ribs and injury to the abdomen and chest areas.

Franklin Corporation

An employee was cutting wood parts on a band saw. The saw cut her left index finger at the knuckle closest to the palm and the employee sustained an amputation to the left index finger.

Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.

An employee was clearing a jam in a T-nut insertion machine when it cycled, resulting in a left index fingertip amputation.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.

An employee fell while moving a water canister, resulting in fractures to four fingers on her right hand.

Great Dane Ltd. Partnership

An employee was changing a die in a press when the die slipped and crushed the employee's left index finger. The employee sustained an open facture of the tuft of the left distal phalanx and a partial amputation.

Olympia Food Industries Inc.

An employee was mixing sauce using a sauce barrel mixer when his left little finger was amputated.

AbbVie Inc.

An employee was driving a boom lift (in the lowered position) in an exterior dock area. The lift s left wheels rolled onto base plates that covered a 3-foot-deep sump pit. The base plates failed, and one side of the lift dropped. The employee's left leg was caught under the lift basket, and he suffered a fracture to the lower leg including the ankle.

TSA Processing - Montgomery

A temporary employee was carrying a nail gun through the warehouse when it hit his leg, activated, and fired a nail into the leg.