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Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Rich Products

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

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Rich Products, 4600 Northwest Blvd, HILLIARD, OHIO 43026 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

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On September 25, 2019, an employee was working at a metal detector in an icings, fillings, and mixes room. As the employee was removing product, a valve closed on the top of the employee's left middle finger, amputating the fingertip.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.

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.

Blue Bell Creameries, L. P.

An employee was using an end mill to mill out a section of a metal door frame that he was fabricating. Metal shavings built up and he could not see the marking to cut, so he used a small brush to remove the shavings. While brushing off the shavings, his glove became caught in the spinning mill bit and pulled his hand in. The employee's right index finger contacted the spinning bit, resulting in a partial amputation to the side of the finger.

DFA Dairy Brands Ice Cream, LLC

An employee was unjamming cookie dough from a machine when the rotating pump caught her left index and ring fingers, resulting in fingertip amputations.

The Ziegenfelder Company, Inc.

An employee was marking a malfunctioning mold when their finger got caught between one section of rollers on the mold and the guarding on the next section of rollers. The employee's finger was amputated below the nailbed.

Hershey Creamery Company

An employee was exiting the rear door of a freezer truck when he slipped/misstepped and fell to the ground. The employee sustained a broken right leg that required surgery.

Hiland Dairy

An employee was palletizing ice cream when his fingers got caught in a chain and sprocket, resulting in amputations of the middle and ring fingers.

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.