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

Industrial Municipal Supply Co., Inc

Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Industrial Municipal Supply Co., Inc, 5373 St. James Co-op St., SAINT JAMES, LOUISIANA 70086 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c..

An employee was finished performing duties on the warehouse floor. While reaching down to grab his laptop bag, he had positioned his hand on a fusion table. A nearby forklift carrying a PVC pipe was rocked; the pipe went to the back of the forks and the edge of the table. The employee was caught and sustained a revision amputation of the left pinky finger.

Hospitalized Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c. Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered

Wash Depot Holdings Inc

An employee was drying and finishing vehicles when a vehicle door closed on their left middle fingertip and amputated it.

XPO, Inc.

An employee was climbing down from a tractor trailer bed when they lost their footing and grabbed onto the roll-up door to stop the fall. The roll-up door then fell onto the employee's hand, resulting in a hand fracture that required surgery.

Thyssenkrupp Logistics Inc.

An employee was attempting to remove a tarp from a flatbed trailer when the trailer handle struck the employee in the chest, resulting in two broken ribs and a punctured lung.

East Alabama Paving Company, Inc

An employee was near a backhoe while the operator was getting a broom. The broom handle struck the lever that actuates the swing of the backhoe bucket. The bucket then struck the injured employee, pinning him to the outrigger. The employee suffered crush injuries to the chest.

Gold Star Feed & Grain, LLC

The injured employee was being trained on loading trucks in the load out bay. The injured employee and his supervisor climbed the stairs that run parallel to the truck and trailer, walked to the upper platform used for observation and sample taking, and saw that the lid of the grain trailer was closed. The employees began working to open the lid which appeared to be stuck due to cold weather. The injured employee pulled on one of the pivot arms that connect the lid to the main body of the trailer. As the lid began to open, the employee s right hand slipped down on the pivot arm and his index finger was caught between the pivot arm and the base of the pivot arm. The employee s right index finger was fractured and three nerves were severed. The employee was hospitalized.

Hinkle Metal & Supply Co. Inc.

An employee was helping to install a tarp on a roof when they fell through a skylight to the ground below, resulting in fractures to their face and ribs.

CT Windows LLC

An employee was driving a forklift and unloading racks of glass from a truck. A rack began to tilt; the employee exited the forklift and went to stabilize it. The rack tipped and pinned his left arm against the forklift. The forearm was broken and required surgery.

IDEAL STEEL L.L.C.

An employee was sitting on a stack of steel beams. When they stood up, the top beam fell onto the employee, resulting in a broken left leg.

T627, Inc

An employee was working to tow a forklift with another forklift when the tow line came loose and struck their face. The employee sustained head, face, and eye injuries.

Kisatchie Midnight Express

A driver was exiting his vehicle outside the plant gate when his foot slipped on the top step of the truck. He fell to the ground, landed on his left hip and elbow. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured hip/femur.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital

A security employee was responding to an urgent call from staff regarding a violent patient. The employee tripped and fell on the floor outside of the stairwell. The employee sustained a closed head injury, contusion of the cerebrum without loss of consciousness, and a closed fracture of the distal end of the right radius.

Jean Simpson Personnel Services, Inc.

A temporary employee was testing an electrical starter motor. He was placing tape on the starter while the breaker was not engaged, but the starter sent an arc flash that burned his hands and stomach.

Calvary Industries Inc

An employee was walking on a sidewalk and stubbed his toe on an elevated portion of concrete, causing him to trip and fall. The employee's right knee was dislocated.