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

Deer Country Farm and Lawn, Inc.

Explosion, n.e.c. · Fractures and burns

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Deer Country Farm and Lawn, Inc., 2710 Mount Joy Road, MANHEIM, PENNSYLVANIA 17545 on — Fractures and burns, affecting the head and trunk.

An electric hand grinder was being used to cut an empty metal 55-gallon drum that had held motor oil. The drum exploded. The employee suffered a broken facial bone, moderate burns on the side of the face, and burns to the esophagus and lungs.

Hospitalized Head and trunk Barrels, drums-except pressurized

Freehold Cartage Inc

An employee was sitting in the cab of the truck while waste oxidizer was being offloaded. The waste reacted with the receiving tank and an explosion occurred in the tank. Fire traveled through the hose to the tanker truck, causing it to explode. The employee jumped from the burning truck and was hospitalized with burns to his face, chest, and arms.

Complete Fire Protection Inc.

An employee was installing piping and valves for fire protection systems in the vicinity of an electrical meter outside of a new warehouse. The meter exploded, causing burns to the employee's face and arms.

MI Metals, Inc.

An employee was pouring molten aluminum into a drain pot. The aluminum touched moisture at the bottom of the drain pot and an explosion occurred. The employee sustained burns to their face, hands, and legs.

Range Environmental Resources

An employee was operating an oxygen-deficient oven that required manual ignition to make charcoal from wood. As the oven was opened, oxygen was introduced to the environment, resulting in an explosion. The employee sustained head trauma as well as fractures to the arms and legs.

RKM Fireworks Company

An employee was setting up the electrical parts for a fireworks display. They were inserting an e-match when it generated friction with something else. A 3-inch firework shell ignited, injuring the employee's hand and head.

Nored, Inc.

During a break, an employee was engaged in a conversation with a customer. They were standing approximately 7 feet in front of a combine header that was attached to a payloader but also set on jack stands for support. The header dislodged from the payloader, slid forward along with its support stand, and struck both the employee and the customer. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, a fractured rib, and a partially deflated lung. The customer also sustained injury.

Hershey Equipment Company, Inc

An employee was replacing a manure belt in an egg producing poultry house. He was using a mechanical roller and a steel cable to pull (remove) the old manure belt. The employee's ring and little fingertips were pinched between the roller and the cable resulting in partial amputations above the top knuckle.

Automated Dairy Systems

An employee was walking past a cow barn when he slipped on a wet floor mat and fell. The employee sustained torn ligaments and his quadriceps were torn from the bone on both legs.

Agriteer LLC

An employee was working on a bale accumulator attached to a tractor. While he was making adjustments, the accumulator activated. The bar of the accumulator struck him and dragged him to the side, and his right leg was run over. He suffered a broken femur.

MWI Corporation

An employee tripped on a piece of wood and fell onto the rough edge of a metal tank under fabrication. The employee was hospitalized with a laceration on his hand.

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.