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

Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c. · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Ball Metalpack LLC, 2690 Charter Street, COLUMBUS, OHIO 43228 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

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.

Amputation Fingertip(s) Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, 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 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.

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Scout Surface Solutions

Employees were assembling and testing a butterfly valve unit and actuator combo. When the unit was function tested with air, the valve gate closed on an employee's left thumb resulting in a fracture and laceration.

Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation

An employee was doing a daily inspection of the sifter screen on a mixer when the mixer line activated. The armature for the screen struck the employee's right wrist. Their wrist was cut and their hand was fractured.

Maxwell Paper Products Co

An employee was being trained on a machine when a roller came down on their hand, resulting in a fracture and laceration.

Turkey Hill LLC

An employee was doing a dry run during the setup of an ice cream machine. The machine indexed and the filler head amputated the employee's left middle finger above the last knuckle.

Erie Strayer Company

An employee was on a 3-foot ladder guiding cable onto a spool during installation on an overhead door. As the control box was jogged, the employee's hand was caught between the cable and spool, resulting in a wrist and hand fracture.

Ohio Art Metal Pack, LLC

An employee was clearing a jam on a ring press. The press's secondary switch was activated, engaging it. It caught the employee's hand. The employee was hospitalized and sustained the amputation of two fingers. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident.

BWAY Corporation

An employee was adjusting an air line on a scroll shear when a rotating gear caught his right ring finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

METAL CONTAINER CORPORATION

An employee was checking a conveyor belt chain when his right index finger came into contact with the moving chain. He suffered a partial amputation to the right index finger.

CROWN CORK & SEAL CO. INC.

On April 1, 2025, at 9:45 p.m. an employee's arm was pulled into a lathe and fractured. The employee was hospitalized.

Bway Corporation

A paint room operator's hand was caught in the exit conveyor of an automated paint booth, resulting in a left middle finger amputation.

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.