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

King America Finishing, Inc.

Other fall to lower level less than 6 feet · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at King America Finishing, Inc., 1351 Scarboro Hwy, SYLVANIA, GEORGIA 30467 on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).

An employee was standing on a sitting stool when he lost his balance and fell, fracturing his left tibia.

Hospitalized Lower leg(s) Chairs

Electrical Contractors Inc.

An employee was climbing a step ladder while carrying a 3-foot piece of conduit. As he went to reposition his feet on the ladder by pivoting, he slipped and fell from the third rung of a 6-foot ladder. The employee sustained fractures to the left femur, right elbow, and right ring finger.

M1 Support Services

An employee was descending a 4-step maintenance stand when she missed the bottom step and fell to the hangar floor. The employee suffered a left hip fracture.

FEDEX Ground Package System, Inc.

An employee stopped a belt and was going to check it for missing packages. She fell backward 3-4 feet from an elevated platform and sustained a broken right arm.

SRM Concrete

An employee had just finished a routine concrete pour and was ascending the ladder to clean the concrete mixer truck. The employee lost their grip and fell approximately 2-3 feet, contacting the truck's bumper. The employee suffered rib fractures and a punctured lung.

U.S. Postal Service - Los Angeles P&DC

An employee was performing duties as an expeditor. After opening the dock door, the employee scanned the barcode on the door of the truck and placed one foot on the truck and one foot on the dock. The truck drove out of the stall, causing the employee to fall 4 feet off the dock onto the concrete. The employee sustained fractures to the right side of the pelvis, elbow, and a left ring fingertip as well as injuries to the right wrist and bruising to the back and stomach.

Lear Corporation

An employee was operating an electric standing pallet jack and pulling an empty A-frame when the jack struck a guard rail. The employee fell from the lift to his right hip and elbow on the concrete floor, and was hospitalized with a fractured hip.

Milliken & Company

An employee was clearing yarn that had wrapped around a gear-driven conveyor belt when his left arm got pulled between the belt and a roller. The employee sustained a fractured arm, as well as lacerations and abrasions.

Dimension-Polyant, Inc.

On November 5, 2024, an employee was working on a lamination line. He had removed a slot assembly from a coating station, placed it into a portable slot cleaning tank, and rolled the cart with the assembly out of the cleaning tank. He hit the door of the coating station, and the slot assembly fell from the cart and crushed his little finger. He suffered an amputation above the first knuckle.

Cerex Advanced Fabrics, Inc

An employee was working on the thermal bond production line when the laydown formation table became filled with fabric. The employee was cleaning the area when the machine restarted. The employee's hands were caught between a belt and a roller resulting in amputations to multiple fingers on both hands.

Tweave, LLC

An employee was correcting a malfunction on a covering machine when their left hand was caught in a moving component and they sustained a left index fingertip amputation.

GS II Building Products, Inc.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

US Battery Manufacturing Company, Inc

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

Alfa Insurance

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

Bull Moose Tube

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.