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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Stoughton Trailers, LLC

Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Stoughton Trailers, LLC, 302 23rd Street, BRODHEAD, WISCONSIN 53520 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee grabbed a stop bracket to pull himself across while underneath a trailer tightening up rear-frame attaching bolts. His left middle fingertip was caught between the rear frame and stop bracket, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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Stoughton Trailers, LLC

Two employees were installing skirts on the side of a trailer. The injured employee's left glove was caught by the rotating drill bit that another employee was operating, resulting in a partial amputation to their left little fingertip.

Stoughton Trailers, LLC

An employee was on a scaffold to paint an upper mezzanine. While exiting the scaffold, the employee fell approximately 10 feet to the floor. The employee sustained paralysis from the chest down, no feeling in their legs, a traumatic brain injury, fractures to their T5 through T8 vertebrae, and memory loss.

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An employee was putting a dislodged plastic belt section back into position on a conveyor. The conveyor shaft rotated, causing the conveyor to lacerate and fracture the employee's right thumb. The employee was hospitalized and underwent surgery to the thumb. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

Stoughton Trailers, LLC

An employee was repositioning a coupler front wall assembly weighing approximately 250 pounds when their left index finger became caught between the part and a roller table, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation.

Stoughton Trailers, LLC

An employee was reaching between a semi-trailer and a semi-trailer lift to retrieve tail-light wires when the lift operator activated the lift. The employee's hand was then crushed between the lift and the semi-trailer.

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N. S. Giles Foundations, Inc.

An employee was changing mud cups in the hopper cylinders of a concrete pump truck. The cylinders moved and three of the employees fingers were amputated.

Weld Mech, Inc.

An employee was standing on the rig floor next to a polishing unit. His hand was placed on the polishing unit when the pump was lowered, resulting in amputation of their right thumb, ring, and middle fingertips.

Axium Packaging LLC

An employee was using air to blow out the air wash to the blender and grinder station. As the employee reached to verify that the air wash was clean, the unit pinched and amputated their fingertip.

PanTerra Energy

An employee was retrieving a lost drill pipe with a lifting bail when their left thumb got pinched between the table and handle of the lifting bail while trying to re-thread the pipe to lift it out. The employee suffered an amputation to the left thumb.

Graphic Packaging International

An employee was removing a core chuck from a stationary roll when their right ring finger was pinched between the chuck and the roll. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

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.

Trail King Industries, Inc.

An employee was assisting with rigging a magnet to an overhead crane in order to lift a sheet of steel. The employee's right thumb was between the crane's hook and the chain passing through the hook, and when the crane was raised, the distal end of their thumb was crushed. Part of the employee's right thumb was medically amputated.

Custom Truck One Source

Two employees were working together to insert a pin into a hydraulic cylinder. One employee was holding the cylinder in place to align it with the pinhole, while the injured employee was inserting the pin. The injured employee was aligning the pin and moved to determine whether the hole alignment was too high or low. At that moment, the crowbar being used to assist with alignment slipped and his left index fingertip was pinched between the cylinder and the housing, resulting in an amputation just below the fingernail.

Great Dane Trailers

An employee was hoisting an axle in the buggy department when one side of the sling came loose, causing the axle to tip. The sling hook raised up from the weight transfer, causing the employee's left little finger to be caught by the rigidness of the hook. The fingertip was amputated.

Trailstar International Inc

An employee was using a circular saw to cut the cap off an aluminum bulkhead of a trailer that was being manufactured. The saw kicked, lacerating his hand and resulting in the amputation of his left middle and ring fingertips.

RG Professional Carpenter, Inc.

The injured employee was assisting five other employees with bracing a wall panel that was being stood up. Another employee slipped on frost on the floor surface. The employees went to evacuate the area in anticipation of the wall panel falling over. The injured employee went to jump through a window opening within the wall panel and their lower half was crushed by the falling wall panel. The employee sustained a fractured pelvis.

General Thermodynamics, Inc.

An employee was using a vertical band saw to cut a thick piece of rubber material. While being cut, the material shifted, causing the employee s right hand to contact the moving blade. The employee's thumb was amputated below the knuckle. The employee was hospitalized, undergoing surgery.

Sargento Foods Inc

A production sanitation employee was pre-rinsing an incline conveyor and noticed cheese stuck between the belt idler. The employee went to remove the cheese and their glove got caught and pulled their left forearm into the conveyor. The employee's arm was fractured. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

Asher Enterprises, Inc.

An employee was on a ladder, taking measurements for a new gutter installation. The ladder slipped out from under him and both he and the ladder fell to the ground. He was hospitalized with seven broken ribs and a broken clavicle.

Consolidated Electrical Distributors Inc.

An employee was unloading a truck for a delivery job. While moving boxes in the truck, the employee tripped over a pallet and fell out of the truck to the ground, resulting in four broken ribs.