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

Rapid Displays, Inc.

Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Rapid Displays, Inc., 4300 W. 47th Street, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60632 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

An employee was using a table mounted circular ripsaw and amputated a finger. The saw was unguarded at the time.

Hospitalized Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Table saws

Leidy's LLC

An employee was operating a band saw when his right little fingertip was amputated.

Swift Beef Company

An employee was operating a strip saw. As the employee shut off the saw, their right index and middle fingertips were amputated by the blade before it came to a complete stop.

Kitchen Tune-Up

An employee was using a table saw to cut a piece of wood for wall framing. The wood jumped, causing the employee's hand to move toward the saw, amputating their left index finger and causing a laceration on their hand.

BBCJ LUMBER LLC

An employee was operating a trim saw. While trying to free a jammed board she had just cut, she came into contact with the running saw blade, which amputated her right thumb.

Appalachian Wood Floors, Inc.

An employee was using a shaper to cut wood when their right hand contacted the blade, resulting in a partial amputation to the right ring finger.

Skyline Products, Inc.

An employee was operating a hand-powered drill to drill holes into plastic clips. The drill bit snagged on a plastic clip and spun the clip around, resulting in an a laceration to her left index finger that required surgical amputation.

CIP International, Inc.

An employee was using a table saw to make a dado cut on a piece of wood. The piece of wood contacted the blade, which pulled in the employee's hand. The blade severely cut the employee's left palm.

FEDERAL HEATH SIGN COMPANY, LLC

An employee was shearing sheet metal with a shear machine activated by a foot peddle. When he hit the foot pedal, one of the springs crushed his finger, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation.

OUTFRONT Media

An employee was disengaging a utility trailer wheel jack and hitch when his right ring fingertip was pinched and amputated.

Midwest Screens, LLC

An employee was working on a motorized screen when they fell approximately 3 feet from a step ladder to the ground. The employee sustained a face contusion and a fractured jaw.

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.