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

OHIO VALLEY PIGGLY WIGGLY

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at OHIO VALLEY PIGGLY WIGGLY, 1129 JACKSON PIKE, GALLIPOLIS, OHIO 45631 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

An employee was using a meat cuber when the employee's glove was caught in the cuber, pulling the employee's left hand into the cuber and resulting in a ring finger amputation at the first knuckle.

Hospitalized Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Butchering machinery

Pall Corporation

An employee was operating a machine when a wire pulled his right glove resulting in amputation of the index and middle fingertips.

Koch Foods of Cincinnati

An employee was grinding chicken when their right index fingertip was caught in the grinder and amputated.

Stella-Jones Corporation

An employee was sharpening peeler blades when their shirt was caught in the grinding wheel. The employee sustained tendon damage and a crushed right hand.

Mack Manufacturing, Inc.

An employee was passing through a large metal door when the door closed on the employee, resulting in a cracked rib.

Nutmeg Container Corporation

An employee was preparing to cut lumber on a panel saw when the clamp engaged and caught the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

Fortune Foods Texas Inc.

Employee 1 was investigating a gas odor. While employee 1 was checking the equipment, a gas explosion occurred, resulting in a fire that burned the employee's face. Employee 2 entered the area and a second explosion occurred, causing burns to their face and arms. Employee 2 was hospitalized.

Giant Food Stores

An employee tripped while walking from one store register station to another. Her forehead struck a register, and she suffered fractures to two vertebrae in her neck. She was hospitalized.

Meijer Stores Limited Partnership

An employee was pulling a display shipper using the provided strap. The strap broke and the employee fell to the floor, suffering a broken wrist.

Shady Maple Farm Market, Inc.

An employee fell down a flight of stairs to the floor and suffered contusions and lacerations to the forehead and lips. She was hospitalized.

Harris Teeter #352

An employee was stocking and ordering the meat case on the sales floor when he slipped and fell due to water on the floor. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured ankle and required surgery.

United States Postal Service

An employee was working to deliver mail to an apartment building. She was waiting for a customer to move, to obtain clearance to the mailboxes. The door swung inward and closed on her right little finger. The top half of her finger was surgically amputated.

Foundation Steel, LLC

An employee fell from a step ladder while reaching for a tie-off point. He impacted the ground, and landed on his bolt bag which contained tools. The employee was hospitalized with fractured ribs, and a lacerated spleen and kidney.

GXO Logistics

On October 30, 2025, an employee was working to adjust a stackable metal shipping container. As the container dropped into place, it caught the employee's hands in an area between the upper and lower cross-members. The employee suffered a laceration to the left ring finger that required stitches, bruising to the right ring finger, and fractures to the right middle finger that necessitated medical amputation of the fingertip.

Abbott Electric Inc

An employee was moving a scissor lift through a doorway. The employee was pinned between the scissor lift and the doorframe, sustained a back injury, and was hospitalized.

American Electric Power Company

An employee was setting up communication equipment for a meeting. They were walking and tripped over a speaker on the ground. The employee sustained a leg injury.