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

WGS Global Services LC

Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at WGS Global Services LC, 2200 Pine Tree Rd., MARINETTE, WISCONSIN 54143 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was grinding a cast iron part when his hand slipped and contacted the grinding wheel. The employee's left ring fingertip was amputated.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Grinders, abraders

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.

BFG Manufacturing

An employee placed an aluminum step ladder beside a tractor trailer and was removing a piece of scrap aluminum from the trailer that resulted from a motor vehicle accident. While coming down the ladder, the employee fell approximately 6 feet to the concrete. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured T4 vertebra.

MSC Walbridge Coatings Inc.

On August 26, 2025, an employee was repairing a pipe at a tank. The employee fell and slid down the tank, suffering severe lacerations to the lower arms. The employee was hospitalized.

GATTO INDUSTRIAL PLATERS, INC.

On August 26, 2025, a temporary employee was assisting a mechanic. The employee was on an overhead crane, removing a chain hoist attachment over a large plating tank. When the platform of the crane was moved, the employee became caught between the platform's railing and a support beam. The employee sustained a punctured lung and fractures to their clavicles, humerus, and ribs.

Precious Plate, Inc.

An employee was adding an all purpose soak and electro cleaner chemical to a water tank to make a cleaner bath. An exothermic reaction caused the 200 F water to splash on him, and he suffered hot water and steam burns to the right side of his face, his upper right arm, the right side of his torso, and his right leg.

Anoplate Corporation

At 3:00 AM, on 2/18/2025, an employee was mixing chemicals. The employee had difficulty breathing due to inhalation of unknown chemicals. The employee was hospitalized.

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.