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

Ferrero USA Inc.,

Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning · Cuts, lacerations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Ferrero USA Inc.,, 600 Cottontail Lane, SOMERSET, NEW JERSEY 08873 on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the lower leg(s).

An employee was inside a machine attempting to fix the glue mechanism when the machine activated. The machine's tray cut his lower left leg, requiring hospitalization.

Hospitalized Lower leg(s) Special process machinery, unspecified

Ferrero USA, Inc.

Three employees were rolling a portable conveyor. One of its wheels fell into a drain, causing the conveyor to tip and fall onto the injured employee. The employee suffered injuries to the shoulders and legs and was hospitalized.

FERRERO USA, INC.

A driver was opening a trailer door when a gust of wind blew the trailer door open, hitting the driver in the face and knocking him to the ground. The employee suffered a hip injury.

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DGS Import, LLC

An employee was changing a saw blade when the saw machine activated. The employee's left ring and little fingers were amputated.

Millennium Mat Company

An employee was clearing a jam from the label cutting machine when their left middle finger was partially amputated.

Bauer Foundation Corp.

Two employees were repairing the hydraulic engagement pins on a rented front-end wheel loader. The machine controls were activated to move the attachment pins and an employee's finger was caught between the pins and the bushings. Their right index finger was partially amputated.

Guggisberg Cheese, Inc.

An employee was cleaning the conveyor on a piece of equipment when they slipped and their right hand was pulled into the chain sprocket. The employee's fifth fingertip was amputated.

Alsco Inc.

An employee was throwing blankets onto a blanket folding and stacking machine. A blanket got stuck in the machine and she attempted to remove it when the machine contacted her right little finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

The Hershey Company

An employee was driving a utility cart into a garage area. The vehicle struck the bottom of the garage door as it was opening and the employee sustained fractured ribs.

The Hershey Company

An employee was performing retails tasks including bending over and lifting 35-pound cases of product. After lifting about 25 boxes he felt back pain, resulting in severe nerve root compression at the base of the spinal cord due to a disc herniation. He required hospitalization and surgery.

SILVESTRI SWEETS, INC.

An employee was cleaning the kitchen at the end of a work shift. As the employee and a co-worker lifted a kettle containing hot water from a hot stove to empty the water, the injured employee slipped and fell. The kettle was dropped, causing water to splash onto their hands and legs. The employee sustained third-degree burns to their hands and quadriceps.

Gardners Candies, Inc.

An employee was working on a machine that grinds toffee into small pieces. The employee's hand became caught between two wheels that grind and was pulled in. The employee's hand was crushed and required surgical amputation to finger(s).

Wolfgang Operations LLC

An employee was operating an enrober and diagnosing a problem with chocolate flow on the bottomer. While checking for a blockage on the infeed of the decorator chocolate well, his right index finger was pulled into the rollers and amputated at the first knuckle.

JERSEY CITY MEDICAL CENTER

An employee tripped over a stool and fell on the floor, resulting in a left displaced mid-cervical femoral neck fracture.

APM TERMINALS PORT ELIZABETH

An employee was installing fence posts when they stepped into a recently dug hole that was not visible due to rainfall. The employee's leg was fractured.

Allied Waste Systems Inc

An employee assisted in cleaning material from a conveyor pit. After the pit was cleaned, the employee proceeded to replace metal safety plates to ensure other employees did not fall into the pit. While replacing one of the last plates, the employee mis-stepped and fell approximately 5 feet into the pit. The employee was hospitalized with back/side bruising, elbow bruising, bone bruises, and/or fractured ribs.

Fitness International, LLC

An employee was inspecting a breaker box and turning on/off a circuit breaker when he was electrocuted.

Bristol Myers Squibb

An employee was walking on the sidewalk. When they stepped off the curb, they fell to the ground, resulting in fractures to their tibia, fibula, and a metatarsal.