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

Dear park Die and Stamping, Inc.

Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Dear park Die and Stamping, Inc., 4348 LaSaint Court, INDIAN SPRINGS, OHIO 45014 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

An employee was conducting welding operations on a spot welder when the machine cycled and partially amputated the employee's right index finger.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Welding machinery

Pall Corporation

An employee was operating a machine when a wire pulled his right glove resulting in amputation of the index and middle fingertips.

Koch Foods of Cincinnati

An employee was grinding chicken when their right index fingertip was caught in the grinder and amputated.

Stella-Jones Corporation

An employee was sharpening peeler blades when their shirt was caught in the grinding wheel. The employee sustained tendon damage and a crushed right hand.

Mack Manufacturing, Inc.

An employee was passing through a large metal door when the door closed on the employee, resulting in a cracked rib.

Nutmeg Container Corporation

An employee was preparing to cut lumber on a panel saw when the clamp engaged and caught the employee's left middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

CONTAINER GRAPHICS CORP

An employee was using a box cutter when it cut the tip of his left thumb resulting in a fingertip amputation.

PHB Inc.

An employee was inspecting and packing parts when a machine in the area had a die malfunction. This die controls the flow of molten metal. Once it malfunctioned, the molten metal bled into the water line and started spraying into the area where the employee was located. The employee was hospitalized to treat burns to her arm, chest, and mouth.

Mid-South/Central Extrusion Die Co., Inc.

An employee was loading components into fixtures on an automated CNC Line. He was moving a J-Hook lifting apparatus by hand from its storage location to the raw material area in order to pick up a piece of steel. The employee had the crane remote and the neck of the J-Hook apparatus in his right hand. When he went to set the J-Hook down on the floor, he placed his left middle finger inside of the lifting loop of the magnet. As he manually lowered the J-Hook to the floor by the neck, it fell. As the neck dropped to the floor, the magnet shifted and the lifting loop of the magnet retracted into the bracket of the J-Hook, fracturing and amputating the fingertip.

C. L. Tool & Die

An employee was operating a two-handed punch press. When the foot pedal was actuated, the machine cycled and came down onto his left hand causing severe lacerations to the index, middle, and ring fingers to the bone.

ROTO-DIE COMPANY, INC.

An employee was cutting material on a band saw and amputated his left ring fingertip.

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.