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

Vertiv

Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified · Amputations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Vertiv, 3040 S 9th St. , IRONTON, OHIO 45638 on — Amputations, affecting the finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified.

An employee was removing tooling from a hydraulic press brake when the brake came down on the employee's right hand, resulting in a partial amputation to the right ring finger.

Amputation Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified Brake presses

N. S. Giles Foundations, Inc.

An employee was changing mud cups in the hopper cylinders of a concrete pump truck. The cylinders moved and three of the employees fingers were amputated.

Weld Mech, Inc.

An employee was standing on the rig floor next to a polishing unit. His hand was placed on the polishing unit when the pump was lowered, resulting in amputation of their right thumb, ring, and middle fingertips.

Axium Packaging LLC

An employee was using air to blow out the air wash to the blender and grinder station. As the employee reached to verify that the air wash was clean, the unit pinched and amputated their fingertip.

PanTerra Energy

An employee was retrieving a lost drill pipe with a lifting bail when their left thumb got pinched between the table and handle of the lifting bail while trying to re-thread the pipe to lift it out. The employee suffered an amputation to the left thumb.

Graphic Packaging International

An employee was removing a core chuck from a stationary roll when their right ring finger was pinched between the chuck and the roll. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

Advanced Air Technologies, Inc.

An employee was using a multimeter to ensure proper power supply to a newly repaired rotary screw air compressor before running a voltage test. An electrical arc flash occurred, resulting in burns to both the employee's hands and their face.

Service-Tech Corporation

An employee was on the roof of a building, putting plastic around a dust collector, when their left middle finger was caught in a grinder insider the dust collector. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the left middle finger.

Diversitech Corporation

On August 4, 2025, an employee was fixing a jammed carousel and using a hook to manually adjust the carousel by hand. The hook slipped off and the employee fell to the concrete ground, resulting in hospitalization for a fractured right hip.

HEPNER AIR FILTER SERVICE, INC.

An employee was replacing a screen on a rooftop HVAC unit when the rotating exhaust fan blade contacted their right index finger, resulting in a laceration that required hospitalization and the surgical amputation at the first knuckle.

JF Filtration

An employee was changing an air filter when the door to the HVAC closed due to wind. The employee sustained an amputation to the left thumb at the nailbed.

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.