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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Frito Lay

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

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Frito Lay, 10 Spud Lane, BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK 13904 on — Fractures, affecting the ankle(s).

An employee was using a stand-up forklift to transport a pallet. The forklift struck a storage structural beam, pinning his ankle against the beam and breaking it.

Hospitalized Ankle(s) Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

Frito Lay

An employee was unloading a truck. While walking out of the truck onto a loading dock, the employee tripped on a dock plate and fell forward into the facility, landing on their elbows. The employee suffered a broken left elbow.

Frito-Lay

An employee was working in the palletizing area, inspecting a right angle gear box when his left index finger was amputated at the middle knuckle by the timing belt of the gear box.

Frito-Lay

An employee was reaching down to grab a bag of chips to place it on the infeed conveyor for packing. The employee's hand contacted the edge of the conveyor and was pinched between the conveyor and the frame, resulting in an amputation to the right middle finger.

Frito-Lay

An employee was operating a stand-up forklift to pick up waste. The forklift was about to strike a bollard and the employee jumped off the vehicle. Her foot was then caught under the forklift s front tires, resulting in a fractured left heel.

FRITO-LAY

An employee was trying to unjam boxes on a pick belt conveyor in a warehouse. The conveyor amputated the employee's left ring and little fingers at the first knuckle.

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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.

Assemblers, Inc.

While attending the slab line, an employee observed that dough was accumulating on the plastic blades. He proceeded to clean the blades. His left index finger came into contact with an adjacent blade that moves laterally (left to right), resulting in a partial amputation.

Quality Snack Foods, Inc.

A sanitation employee entered the chemical room and slipped on the wet floor. When he slipped, he kicked over a bucket containing cleaning chemicals. The chemicals splashed onto the employee's clothing and burned his skin.

Frito Lay Inc.

An employee's right middle fingertip was caught between a chain and a sprocket in a machine. The fingertip was amputated. The machine was unguarded at the time.

Mckee Foods Corporation

An employee had just finished unloading material from a truck. He was descending using the truck's built-in ladder when he missed the last rung, fell to the ground, and broke his hip and left wrist.

Rolling Frito-Lay Sales, LP

An employee was using a handheld grinder to cut a bolt. The grinding wheel broke apart and a fragment struck the employee s right hand, causing a laceration to the palm near the little finger.

Garden Angels New York LLC

An employee was cleaning leaves with a backpack blower when he fell from a ladder, resulting in injuries to his head, neck, and back.

Cashless Tolling Constructors

An employee was operating a battery-powered broom to clean demolition debris off the top of the outermost bridge girder. The girder was approximately 11 feet above the demolition scaffold below. The employee fell approximately 8 feet to wind bracing below. The employee was hospitalized with a pelvis/tailbone fracture. Fall protection was in place at the time.

NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn

An employee slipped while descending in a stairwell, fell, and suffered multiple contusions/bruises to the head, neck, shoulders, knees, and back. She was hospitalized.

VILLAGER CONSTRUCTION, INC.

An employee was directing trucks as they entered and left a highway work zone. A vehicle struck them, resulting in multiple fractures and other injuries. The employee was hospitalized.