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

Janus International

Struck by or caught in swinging door or gate · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Janus International, Betco, Inc , MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA 25405 on — Fractures, affecting the face, unspecified.

An employee was replacing the door tracks on a roll-up door for a storage unit when the tension came off the spring, releasing the door frame. The door frame struck the employee in the face, resulting in potential facial fractures that required hospitalization.

Hospitalized Face, unspecified Garage doors

JANUS INTERNATIONAL

On February 27, 2025, employees were preparing for the installation of metal garage doors. The injured employee was lifting a door axle to place on the holding bracket of the door table as another employee pushed the table in to adjust the width. The injured employee's finger was caught between the door axle resulting in a partial fingertip amputation.

Janus International

An employee was feeding metal into a roll bending machine when his hand became caught in the two infeed rollers, resulting in crushing injuries to his hand that required hospitalization and surgery.

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KLX Energy Services

An employee was closing an office door when their middle fingertip was caught between the door and the frame, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

ALAN WIRE COMPANY

An employee was doing a repair in an office building. He was closing a bank vault door when his right index finger became caught between the door and the door frame resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

Dakota Plains Dairy, LLC

An employee's left index finger was pinched between a cattle gate and a concrete wall, resulting in amputation of soft tissue and loss of the fingernail.

USPS

An employee was delivering mail when their left little finger got caught in a door and the door closed, resulting in amputation.

R. F. KNOX COMPANY, INC.

On December 11, 2023, an employee was transporting equipment for demolition tasks and waiting for the superintendent to open the door. The door closed and amputated the tip of the employee's left thumb.

Steel-King Industries, Inc.

On October 21, 2025, an employee was operating a saw when a pneumatic clamp caught their right middle finger. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the finger.

ORRVILON, INC

An employee completed an end cut on a metal shim and started transferring the metal shim from the saw conveyor to two saw horses in the area. The employee set one end of the shim (7 feet long x 8 inches wide, weighing 218 pounds) on one of the saw horses, then slid the other end onto the other saw horse and the shim fell from the first saw horse. The employee's left index fingertip was pinched between the saw horse and the shim, resulting in a skin avulsion. The fingertip was amputated later.

Cives Steel Company New England

An employee was using a crane to move a 44-foot, 3,343-pound I-beam. As the beam was moving west, it straightened out (north to south), beginning to swing south toward the northwest corner of a building. The crane then sent the beam southward, directly toward the corner of the building. The beam caught the tips of the employee's left index, middle, and ring fingers against the building. The last joints of the middle and ring fingers were amputated, and the last joint of the index finger was partially crushed.

Suburban Steel Supply

An employee was moving steel beams with an overhead crane when the bundle struck a bollard and became unstable. As the employee reached to stop the material from shifting, his thumb was pinched in-between the beams, resulting in a partial amputation.

Canam Steel Corporation

An employee was rigging a steel joist to be lifted by a crane. The joist fell and pinned the employee against the concrete ground. The employee sustained fractures to multiple ribs, his right arm, right tibia, and an open fracture to his right ankle, as well as a dislocated right hip.

Caperton Furniture Works, LLC

An employee tripped over a concrete curb stop in a parking lot. The employee fell to the ground, landing on their left hip and breaking it.

Certainteed Gypsum West Virginia, Inc

An employee was conducting routine maintenance on a mixer. New lid pins had been installed, and the employee was rotating by hand to ensure they had been installed correctly. The employee's left middle finger was caught between the lid and top of a pin. The momentum from the mixer continued, causing a crushing injury to the finger. The employee underwent a medical amputation from the top knuckle to the tip of the finger.

Owens Corning

An employee was climbing down a ladder when it slipped. The employee fell, suffering a broken scapula and broken ribs. The employee was hospitalized.

Applied Integrated Services, LLC

An employee was climbing down a 15-foot multipurpose ladder. The employee fell about 8 feet, landing on the concrete floor and the ladder itself. The employee suffered several injuries, all on the right side: broken ribs, a broken sternum, a broken temporal bone, broken shoulder, multiple fractures to the cheekbone, and a brain bleed.

Fedex Freight Inc.

An employee was rolling up the landing gear on his trailer when the handle began to unwind and struck his face, fracturing his jaw. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.