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

Universal Plastics Corporation-Albany, Inc.

Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Cuts, lacerations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Universal Plastics Corporation-Albany, Inc., 165 Caverns Rd, HOWES CAVE, NEW YORK 12092 on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the hand(s), unspecified.

An employee was cutting plastic using a band saw. As he moved the plastic, his hand was caught by the blade causing a deep laceration on the left hand.

Hospitalized Hand(s), unspecified Band 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.

TESSY PLASTICS CORPORATION

An employee was blowing out material in the blow-out booth when the silo magnet came down on his left hand, amputating the index and middle fingertips.

Central Plastics

At the maintenance shop, an employee was drilling plastic parts using a drill press. The employee's left glove got caught in the drill, and half of her left ring finger and her left little fingertip were amputated.

The Tensar Corporation (Georgia)

A maintenance technician was servicing an extruder and removed the cam locking pin on a hot water/steam line to change a water hose. Hot water/steam sprayed out, striking the employee on the right forearm and the right side of their neck. The employee sustained burns to their neck, right forearm, and right leg.

Apex Resource Technologies, Inc.

An employee was entering an area while carrying a tray containing 20 pounds of product. A plastic curtain came into contact with the employee's shoulder; the employee suffered a herniated disc while dislodging the curtain.

Mattr US, Inc.

An employee was working on a cutting line that utilized a machine to pull material through the line. The employee was turning a roller to feed material into the machine when their left hand was caught between the rollers, resulting in abrasions and a dislocated thumb. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery on the thumb.

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.