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

Roper Corporation

Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified · Fractures

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Roper Corporation, 1507 Broomtown Road, LA FAYETTE, GEORGIA 30728 on — Fractures, affecting the forearm(s).

An employee was clearing metal debris from a press. The ram came down onto her forearm and broke it in two places.

Hospitalized Forearm(s) Presses, except printing, unspecified

Roper Corporation

An employee was using a die changeover table with a snake chain conveyor. The e employee activated the snake chain via remote and it moved quickly, causing the employee's right index finger to be pinched between the pin and edge of the die and amputated.

Roper Corporation

An employee was using a wrench to fix a leak on a feed line from a tote to a metering pump when one of the cam locks for the tote cap cover came loose, spraying the employee with 93% sulfuric acid. The employee suffered chemical burns.

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Service Wire Company

On December 19, 2023, an employee was setting up a copper wire drawing machine when his left ring finger was pinched between a copper wire and a machine part. The employee's finger was partially amputated.

Oriental Trading Company, Inc.

An employee was examining a machine when a part moved up and amputated a fingertip on their left hand.

Fox Packaging

An employee was checking the gusset seal on a machine. He moved to the next cross sealer and the machine activated, causing an amputation to a left-hand finger. The employee was hospitalized.

Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.

An employee was evaluating a coiling machine to verify that the blade was present inside it. The machine's weld function was activated, and the machine crushed the employee's fingers, resulting in the amputation of the left middle and ring fingers.

ITW Bedford Wire

An employee's right hand was caught in a wire drawing machine, resulting in amputation.

Weber-Stephen Products LLC

A temporary employee was sitting on a chain at the loading dock and planning work tasks. The chain broke and the employee fell off the loading dock, landing on the pavement outside of the building. The employee was hospitalized with a head laceration, a fractured left clavicle, fractured ribs, and a possible collapsed lung.

ROPER CORPORATION (DELAWARE)

On January 7, 2025, an employee was walking to the timeclock when they tripped on matting sticking out from a workstation and fell to the ground. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured right hip.

Weber-Stephen Products LLC

The injured employee was pushing a tilt cart down a main aisle when a riding propane forklift collided with the cart. The employee fell and struck their head on the floor. They sustained a skull fracture and a right elbow contusion.

Wolf Appliance, Inc.

An employee reported to work at 2:00 p.m. and conducted a pre-shift inspection on a stand-up powered industrial vehicle (PIV). The employee was standing on the PIV with their hands over their head when they fell 10 inches from the forklift platform onto the concrete floor, resulting in injuries to their back and to the back of their head.

Whirlpool Corporation

An employee was performing a die change on a 150-ton press when he began to feel weak, suffering from possible dehydration and/or heat exhaustion.

GS II Building Products, Inc.

An employee was helping to lift the grating from a floor draining system when the grating slipped and landed on his hand, resulting in the amputation of his right middle finger at the first joint.

US Battery Manufacturing Company, Inc

A casting machine jammed. An employee's hand was caught in the machine, where a belt line caught and amputated the tip of his finger.

Alfa Insurance

During a workshop meeting in a hotel, an employee heard a drilling noise, so he walked outside to see what it was. An explosion occurred (possible gas line) and his face, ear, and hair were burned. He also fell and sustained a pelvic fracture.

EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

An employee slipped on condensation on a walkway in a parking garage. She fell and suffered a closed fracture to the neck of the left femur.

Bull Moose Tube

An employee was using a tool to remove a rag from a roll on the tube mill. The roll pulled the tool and the employee's right hand into the roll, resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and a fracture to the index finger.