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

XL Plastics

Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at XL Plastics, 220 Clifton Boulevard, CLIFTON, NEW JERSEY 07011 on — Amputations, affecting the fingertip(s).

An employee was working on an individual folder machine. The employee slipped and their hand contacted a gear resulting in amputation of the right index fingertip.

Hospitalized Amputation Fingertip(s) Machinery, unspecified

XL Plastics

An employee fell off a stack of cardboard boxes to the concrete floor, resulting in broken ribs.

XL Plastics

An employee was cleaning the ram on a plastic extruder machine when the employee's hand and arm were caught in the machine causing a fractured right radius.

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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.

Sealed Air Corp.

At about 11:00 a.m. on August 17, 2025, a Sealer Air Corp. employee suffered a broken right tibia while stepping down from a conveyor to the floor 19 inches below.

PAC Worldwide Corporation

A maintenance employee was repairing the labeler on the line when it fell on their head, resulting in a broken jaw.

Hilex Poly, A Novolex Brand

An employee was troubleshooting around the secondary draw rollers of a bag machine when their left index, middle, and ring fingers contacted the rollers. The employee sustained a partial fingertip amputation to one of the fingers. The machine was not guarded at the time.

Pitt Plastics, Inc.

An employee was clearing a jam from the rewinder when their hand was pulled into a rotating part of the machine, fracturing one finger and dislocating another.

Berry Global

An employee was stepping down from a two-step ladder when the ladder slipped out from underneath them. The employee fell and landed on a sidekick trailer jack, resulting in four fractured ribs, including two ribs with multiple breaks, and a pulmonary contusion.

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.