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

TATE & LYLE INGREDIENTS AMERICAS LLC

Climbing or stepping up or down-single episode · Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at TATE & LYLE INGREDIENTS AMERICAS LLC, 2200 E. ELDORADO STREET, DECATUR, ILLINOIS 62521 on — Major tears to muscles, tendons, ligaments, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.

A refinery operator was changing filters in a refinery. While getting down off a step, he ruptured his quad tendons. He was hospitalized for surgery.

Hospitalized Leg(s), unspecified Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker

School Bus, Inc.

An employee was stepping from a bus onto the curb when they sustained a right strained hamstring.

Massey Services, Inc.

An employee was stepping from a parking block down into a parking spot when he twisted his right ankle, resulting in a fracture.

SVC Manufacturing, Inc.

An employee was stepping down from a work platform to the ground when they rolled their left ankle and fractured it.

Metform, L.L.C.

An employee was operating a forklift in the warehouse. As they were dismounting, the employee felt pain in their leg from stepping down and sustained a left leg fracture.

Cargill Inc.

An employee was bringing a filter online. When the employee opened a valve to initiate flow through the filter, the gasket on the filter housing failed, spraying a water/erythritol mixture (heated to about 175 degrees Fahrenheit) toward the employee. The employee moved back quickly and their chemical suit caught on something, causing it to open. The mixture burned the employee's abdomen and left arm.

Cargill, Incorporated

An employee was performing regular job duties when they began to feel unwell. The employee was hospitalized for dehydration due to heat.

Cargill, Incorporated

An employee was descending a ladder and fell approximately 5-6 feet to the floor, resulting in a fractured elbow.

Cargill Incorporated

An employee was unloading material from a rail car when they fell approximately 15 feet onto the feed layout area. The employee was hospitalized with a broken femur that required surgery.

Western Grain and Milling

An employee was removing feed from a grain trailer. After unclogging feed in the cone of the feed silo, the employee was getting up off the ground. His right hand was braced on the concrete and as he raised his body, the right hand slipped. His left index finger was caught in the auger, resulting in 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.