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

Ball Metalpack LLC

Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Ball Metalpack LLC, 2690 Charter St, COLUMBUS, OHIO 43228 on — Fractures, affecting the lower leg(s).

An employee was manually lowering a lift. The elevator weight on the tensioning chain jammed between the frame and elevator; the employee's lower leg was broken as she tried to clear the jam.

Hospitalized Lower leg(s) Elevators, hoists, aerial lifts, personnel platforms-except truck-mounted, unspecified

Ball Metalpack, LLC

A maintenance employee was adjusting the alignment of a shaft-driven conveyor belt. The rotating shaft bolt and collar caught the employee's sleeve and pulled the employee's right arm into the shaft. The employee suffered multiple fractures to the arm.

Ball Metalpack LLC

An employee was conducting quality checking when his right index finger got caught in between a die and a can resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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NorAm Drilling Company

An employee was assisting with pipe on a drilling rig. The slips came down and landed on the employee's left foot fracturing four metatarsals.

Stalworth Underground LLC

Two employees were struck by the rotary table of a drilling rig while installing caisson. Employee 1 suffered multiple fractures, internal injuries, and head trauma. Employee 2 suffered multiple fractures, internal injuries, spinal injury, and head trauma.

National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior

Employees were felling hazard trees. The injured employee was conducting 'bucking' operations to saw a tree from the road when the tree kicked-back, pinning him against the ground and fracturing his left femur. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

HT Energy LLC

An employee was greasing tongs on a work-over rig. The tongs lacerated one of the employee's fingers.

TKM BENGARD FARMS, LLC

An employee was chaining a vehicle when he had to change tools and the compressor. As the compressor was being charged, the employee stepped near the vehicle to make sure the compressor was attached. Then, he instructed a co-worker to lower the compressor. His right hand was on the compressor and under the chain, causing his ring finger to be crushed.

KEN FORGING, INC.

Two employees were loading a steel-forging die into a forging hammer. One employee was pushing the die into place on one end of the hammer with a forklift. The injured employee was on the opposite side of the hammer making adjustments to level the die. When the forklift pushed the die into place, the injured employee's right middle finger was pinched between the stationary leveler and the die., resulting in a partial amputation to the fingertip.

Forge Group Cardinal LLC

An employee was grinding a part on a belt grinder when the part slipped and his left thumb was caught between the belt and the guard. The employee sustained an amputation involving loss of bone from the thumb tip.

Ken Forging Inc

An employee was operating an overhead crane that was carrying a die set. The hoist pin came out and the steel die set fell onto the employee's left foot resulting in injuries to the foot and toes that required hospitalization and surgery.

Ken Forging Inc

An employee was operating a blasting machine. Between parts, the employee was shoveling some steel shot off the floor. While shoveling the steel shot behind the machine, he lost his balance and fell into the chain and sprocket on the back of the blasting machine, resulting in amputation of his right index finger to the first knuckle. The chain and sprocket were not guarded at the time.

Howmet Aerospace Cleveland Operations

An employee walking down a passageway was struck by a loaded fork truck. The employee was hospitalized with broken bones.

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.