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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Jes Enterprises Inc.

Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Jes Enterprises Inc., 700 North 13th Street, ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA 18102 on — Fractures, affecting the arm(s), unspecified.

An employee was handling material on a hand cart when the load shifted. A sheet of aluminum twisted and broke the employee's arm.

Hospitalized Arm(s), unspecified Metal sheets, ingots, bars-nonstructural

Jes Enterprises Inc.

On September 13, 2022, an employee was installing a sign on an overhang approximately 10 feet above the ground when they fell through the soffit to the sidewalk below, resulting in broken back vertebrae.

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TForce Freight

An employee was operating a forklift and unloading a truck. After the truck was unloaded, the employee got off the forklift and proceeded to adjust the dock plate with a hook tool. The dock plate slipped and the employee went to adjust the plate with their hand when their left middle finger got caught. Their finger was amputated above the first joint.

Liveo Research, Inc.

An employee was rotating a carbide granulator blade when his finger was caught between the blade and a stationary part of the machine. The employee's right middle finger was partially amputated and they suffered an avulsion to the right ring fingertip.

Best Pump and Flow

An employee was using a CNC metal lathe machine in manual mode to check that the thread blocking tool made contact with the jaws. As the employee was manually spinning the spindle, his index fingertip was crushed between the spindle's jaws and the grooving insert, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

FORD MOTOR COMPANY

During a material handling operation, an employee's fingertip was caught under an air conditioning unit as the unit was lowered onto a cart. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Lasseter Tractor Company. Inc.

An employee was removing a bolt from a tractor hub when their right index finger was caught between the hub and the frame. The employee's fingertip was crushed and the employee was hospitalized.

Quantum Design

An employee was preparing to move two metal plates (turret arms) using a crane. He placed his left hand on one of the plates to steady it while operating the crane controls with his right hand. As he was maneuvering the crane, the two plates slid together and crushed his left thumb. The thumb was amputated at the interphalangeal joint and he was hospitalized.

BRISTER SIGNS, INC.

An employee was driving a pole into the ground using a slam bar. The tool came off the top of the of the U-channel post, striking the employee's right foot. The employee was hospitalized for a fractured toe that required surgery.

Jes Enterprises Inc.

On September 13, 2022, an employee was installing a sign on an overhang approximately 10 feet above the ground when they fell through the soffit to the sidewalk below, resulting in broken back vertebrae.

Quality Design Services, Inc

An employee was troubleshooting a new conveyor. While he was sitting on it, two of its wires were reconnected and the conveyor activated. He traveled on the conveyor for about 6 feet; a cross brace struck his back, injuring it.

Arconic Fastening Systems

An employee was trimming trees when a branch that he cut rotated back into the ladder causing him to fall off the ladder. He sustained a broken arm, a dislocated shoulder, and a fractured wrist.

Main Line Clinical Labs

An employee was closing a door when the door closed on their right index finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Ardent Mills

An employee was walking into the motor control center (MCC) room when his right ring finger was caught in the hinge of a doorway. He sustained an open phalanx fracture, which resulted in a partial amputation above the first knuckle.

Zimmerman & Herr

An employee was changing the spacing on a telehandler's forks. A fork slipped, and the employee's left index finger was caught between it and the mast. The fingertip was medically amputated at the first knuckle.

McAneny Brothers, Inc.

An employee was pulling down a broken skid with a forklift. When the employee backed up the forklift to get the forks out of the skid he pulled down, he contacted the forks of another parked forklift, fracturing both of his legs. He was hospitalized.

Metz Culinary Management LLC

An employee was carrying cups back to the kitchen when her foot got caught on a cart and she fell face-first. During the fall, a piece of glass from a cup cut the inside of her mouth, severing an artery. She also sustained a laceration on her lower lip. The employee was hospitalized.